Annual Report 2013-2014

Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (Declared as Deemed to be University under section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956) Valiamala P.O., Thiruvananthapuram 695547, Kerala, India.

Contents

INTRODUCTION 9 ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES 10  B.Tech Programmes  M.Tech Programmes  Doctoral Programmes CONVOCATION 12 PLACEMENT 12 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT 13  Ph.D Awarded  Projects  Climate Observatory at Ponmudi  Centre of Excellence  Student Projects  Patent Applied  Publications CONFERENCE / WORKSHOPS AT IIST 41 INVITED LECTURES 42 FACULTY & STAFF ACTIVITIES 44  Awards / Recognitions  Conference / Workshop attended by Faculty Members  Invited Lectures Delivered by IIST Faculty STUDENT ACTIVITIES 58  Dhanak 2013  Concientia 2014  Research Scholars Day  Fresher’s Day at IIST  Clubs at IIST  Annual Sports Meet  Induction (Orientation) programme  Neuro - Linguistic programme OTHER ACTIVITIES 62  Cultural and National Festivals  Onam Celebrations  Women’s Day  Outreach Activities INFRASTRUCTURE 64  Laboratory Facilities  Library  Computer System Group  Software Support Group  Hindi Section and Official Language Implementation Committee CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT 74  Other Facilities AUDIT REPORT 76

Annual Report 2013-14 3 Vision & Mission

Vision

To be a world class educational and research institution contributing significantly to the space endeavours

Mission

Create a unique learning environment enriched by the challenges of the space programme.

Nurture the spirit of innovation and creativity.

Establish Centres of Excellence in niche areas.

Provide ethical and value based education.

Promote activities to address societal needs.

Network with national and international institutions of repute.

4Annual Report 2013-14 Annual Report 2013-142 Director’s Foreword

It gives me enormous pleasure to outline some important milestones of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), as we progress towards the seventh year of its academic journey. The year 2013-14, witnessed a new group of students who performed well in JEE Main as well as JEE Advanced Examination and took admission in IIST to pursue their interest in Space Studies. Their scholarly eagerness to join B. Tech programmes in Aerospace Engineering, Avionics and the Physical Sciences was overwhelming and academically uplifting. It has now become a matter of pride and privilege for the institute to underscore the fact that all the three under graduate programmes continue to be ranked among the top programmes in their respective categories. Furthermore, IIST has started several Post Graduate programmes that have been received by the students with a resounding response, as they have taken to the programmes with the right tempo of academic fervour and diligence.

Concurrently, the Institute continues to focus on its research and its associated publication output in internationally and nationally reputed journals. The above focus, inspires and motivates each faculty member to excel in her/his quest for knowledge and expand the research frontiers in their specialized fields of inquiry. The faculty members and students also get an impetus and opportunity to work extensively on research projects on various specialized fields at IIST and also on high end technology, in collaboration with the different centres of ISRO. In line with the above mentioned research activities of the institute, various departments have also organized colloquia, seminars, workshops and conferences for the diffusion of specialized knowledge as well as to maximize scholarly peer-interactions in their respective areas. While the quantum of the work done by the faculty is relatively on a higher scale, the efforts are to push the limits of endeavor and knowledge dissemination to gain international reputation and acclaim. In 2013-14, a laudable number of projects, seminars were organized in the Institute and working papers were published by the faculty members.

The year has also been remarkable for the successful completion of several projects, which focus on a plethora of variegated subjects, which indicates the quality of infrastructure as well as the aesthetic resonances of the academic climate of the institute. The labs and the infrastructure, the institute has today, are comparable with the best in the country. IIST library is continuously expanding its collection of academic material and subscriptions to consortiums of database and journals needed for research and teaching. The academic ambience of the institute are further enhanced by the sports facilities, fitness centres and the verdant outdoor landscapes which are compelling attractions to the students for their intellectual and emotional stimuli. The cafeteria and the green scenery provide the students the conducive environment to disseminate, reflect on, exchange and share knowledge among their peers.

I am happy to render this fourth yearly report as the Director of IIST. I have witnessed the institute grow from an organization with potential to an institution which has become iconic and path-breaking. And whatever we have achieved, would not have been possible without the unstinting support of the faculty members and students, the administrative acumen of the staff and the indulgence of the Board of Management. K S Dasgupta Director Annual Report 2013-14 5

Key Functionaries

Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Honourable Chancellor

Dr. K. Radhakrishnan Chairman, Board of Management, IIST Chairman, ISRO/Secretary, DOS

Dr. K.S. Dasgupta Director

Prof. A. Chandrasekar Dr. Thomas Kurian Prof. Kurien Issac Prof. Kuruvilla Joseph Prof. Raju K George Registrar Dean Dean Dean Dean Dean, Academics Research & Intellectual Property Rights Student Activities Student Welfare Development & Continuing Education

Annual Report 2013-14 7 Board of Management

Chairman

Secretary, Department of Space, Government of India.

Members

Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.

Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Government of India.

Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala.

Prof. Roddam Narasimha, Member, Space Commission.

Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram.

Director, Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad.

Additional Secretary, Department of Space, Government of India, Bangalore.

Scientific Secretary, ISRO Head Quarters, Antariksh Bhavan, Bangalore.

Nominee of UGC Chairman.

Director, IIST-Member Secretary.

8 Annual Report 2013-14 ndian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), established in 2007, became a IDeemed to be University under section 3 of UGC Act, 1956 in 2008. IIST, envisaged as a research driven institute, offers various academic programmes giving emphasis on Space Science and Technology. In addition to the B. Tech. courses in Aerospace Engineering, Avionics and Physical Sciences, IIST offers M.Tech., M.S., Doctoral and Post Doctoral programs in various disciplines.

Research activities at IIST integrate Space Technology and Space Science programmes with basic science and applied research. IIST also provides an opportunity for Scientists/Engineers of ISRO to pursue higher studies through IIST-ISRO sponsorship programme for M. Tech. and Ph.D degrees.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 9 ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES

IIST offered three undergraduate programs and thirteen postgraduate programs during 2013-14. The academic programs offered during 2013-14 are:

B.TECH PROGRAMMES (4 YEARS) 1. Aerospace Engineering 2. Avionics 3. Physical Science For the previous three years, (2010-2012) the admission to B.Tech. programmes was through ISAT - IIST Admission Test exclusively conducted by the Institute. In 2012, CBSE announced that Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), the All India Common Entrance Examination conducted for admission in various engineering courses. Based on this, IIST decided to conduct admission for its B.Tech. programmes for the academic year 2013-14 through direct counseling of students based on their performance in JEE ( Main) conducted by CBSE as well as JEE ( Advanced) examination conducted by IITs . 156 students were admitted for the academic year 2013 - 2014 in the three B.Tech. programmes.

Admission 2013-14 Branch Gen OBC SC ST PD-Gen PD-OBC PD-SC Total Aerospace Engineering 29 16 9 5 1 0 0 60 Avionics 29 15 9 5 1 1 0 60 Pysical Sceiences 18 10 5 2 1 0 0 36 Total 76 41 23 12 3 1 0 156

10Annual Report 2013-14 Annual Report 2013-142 M.TECH/MS PROGRAMME (2 YEARS) Applications for M.Tech/MS programmes are screened based on GATE score and the admission was through test and interview. The total number of seats in each programme is ten, out of which six seats are reserved for open merit candidates and the remaining four for DOS/ISRO employees. Category- wise details of students admitted during the report period across various M.Tech/MS Programmes of IIST are as follows:

Admission 2013-14 Candidates admitted against DOS/ISRO Name of the M.Tech/MS Programme Gen OBC SC ST candidates Total Propulsion 2 2 0 0 4 8 Aerodynamics & Flight Mechanics 3 2 0 0 0 5 Structures & Design 3 2 0 0 0 5 RF & Microwave Engineering 2 2 0 0 2 6 Digital Signal Processing 0 3 1 0 2 6 VLSI & Microsystems 0 2 1 0 1 4 Control Systems 0 3 1 0 2 6 Machine Learning & Computing 3 1 0 0 0 4 Geoinformatics 2 1 1 0 0 4 Materials Science &Technology 2 0 0 0 1 3 Optical Engineering 3 2 1 0 0 6 Solid State Technology 3 1 0 0 0 4 Astronomy & Astrophysics 3 2 0 0 0 5 Total 26 23 5 0 12 66

DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES Admission was based on test and interview and restricted to those candidates who qualified JRF- NET/GATE or equivalent exams. During this period, 14 students registered for Ph.D.

Department Full time Part time Total Aerospace Engineering 1 1 2 Avionics 3 1 4 ESS 3 0 3 Physics 3 0 3 Chemistry 2 0 2 Total 12 2 14

Annual Report 2013-14 1 11 CONVOCATION

The second convocation of IIST was held on June 3, 2013 at Dr. Srinivasan Auditorium, VSSC. Dr. R.Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India was the Chief Guest of the programme which was presided over by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Honourable Chancellor, IIST. Sri.S. Ramakrishnan, Director, VSSC was the Guest of Honour. Dr. K.Radhakrishnan, Chairman, Board of Management, IIST and Chairman, ISRO/Secretary, DOS addressed the gathering.

Out of 148 students who joined in 2008, degree was awarded to 124 meritorious students in Aerospace Engineering (42), Avionics (52) and Physical Sciences (30) who had successfully completed their B.Tech. course in June 2012.

PLACEMENT Students of 2009 batch who completed the B.Tech. course with the required CGPA were placed at various ISRO centers as Scientist/Engineer 'SC'.

ADRIN 02 NRSC, Hyderabad 04 ISAC, Bangalore 19 PRL, Ahmedabad 01 ISTRAC, Bangalore 05 SAC, Ahmedabad 16 LPSC (Valiamala) 08 SCL, Chandigarh 14 LPSC (Bangalore) 01 SDSC, Sriharikota 09 LPSC (Mahendragiri) 07 VSSC,Thiruvananthapuram 26 MCF, Hassan 05 IIRS, Dehradun 01 NARL, Gadanki 04 Total 122

12Annual Report 2013-14 Annual Report 2013-142 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Research programmes in IIST focus on various areas of Science, Engineering and Humanities. The institute currently has 59 full time and 19 part time research scholars.

Department Full time Part time Total Aerospace Engineering 5 7 12 Avionics 7 8 15 ESS 11 1 12 Physics 12 1 13 Chemistry 16 1 17 Mathematics 4 1 5 Humanities 4 0 4 Total 59 19 78

To provide a congenial academic and research atmosphere, the institute encourages students, research scholars and faculty members to actively participate in collaborative research. The institute supports them to present papers at national levels and international levels. The research scholars are actively contributing their works to journals of international repute. IIST funds projects for the faculty members, who are engaged in long term projects, and fast track projects. Apart from the projects in focused areas, IIST has two projects for B.Tech students. IIST has Centres of Excellence in various fields to catch up with the most modern developments in science and technology. Ph.D AWARDED / COMPLETED

Shine S. R. - “Studies on Film Cooling in Rocket Combustion Chambers”

V. Ashok - " Computation of High speed chemically reacting Viscous flows with cartesian mesh on a GPU based parallel system"

V. S. Sooraj - 'Investigations on Fine Finishing of Surfaces using Elastic Abrasives’

PROJECTS

01. Autonomous landing System using GPR Dr. Thomas Kurian, S. Chris Prema

02. Design and Implementation of Helmet antennas Dr. Basudeb Ghosh

03. Ultrasensitive Self Powered Nanomechanical Sensors for Low Dr. Seena V. Cost Sensor Networks

04. Polymer MEMS with Integrated Novel Electromechanical Dr. Seena V. Transduction Schemes

Annual Report 2013-14 1 13 05. Multi-objective, Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization of a Pankaj Priyadarshi Semi-ballistic Re-entry Vehicle using High Fidelity Heat Flux Estimation

06. To study the effect of real gas on the aerodynamic Pankaj Priyadarshi coefficients and heat transfer coefficients of re-entry module configurations

07. Development of carbon foams for high temperature thermal Dr. K. Prabhakaran protection applications

08. Plasma Modification of CNT and polymer nano composites Dr. N. Gomathi thereof for space applications

09. Graphene-DMA Hybrid Materials; Development of Dr. S. Mahesh Electronic-Nose Technologies for Biomedical Applications

10. Plasma Modification of CNT and Polymer Nanocomposites Dr. K.G. Sreejalekshmi thereof for Space Applications.

11. Star formation in young Galactic clusters associated with Dr. Sarita Vig massive stars

12. Evaluation of the potential of hyperspectral remote sensing Dr. L. Gnanappazham for species level classification and biophysical characterization of mangroves of Bhitarkanika National Park, Orissa

13. Aerosol - Cloud Interaction under varying meteorological Dr. M. V. Ramana conditions

14. Black carbon , Aerosol, Meteorological and Ozone Profiling Dr. M. V. Ramana Study (BAMPS)

15. Space Technology and its Penetration into the Socio Dr. Lekshmi V. Nair Economic Space of the Households of India, IIST Dr. Shaijumon C.S.

16. Study of select issues of new product development in R&D Dr. Ravi V. organizations

17. A study on Creative Writers and Artists in DoS Dr. Gigy J. Alex

18. Dynamics and rheology of a dilute suspension of Dr. C. V. Anilkumar, periodically forced spheroids in a quiescent fluid at low Dr. Ramamohan T. R. Reynolds number

19. Polymer nanocomposites for electronic and photonic Dr. Pramod Gopinath applications Dr. Honey John

20. Controlled synthesis of coherent polarization of light and its Dr. Rakesh Kumar Singh application in optical imaging

21. Investigating excited state dynamics of isolated molecular Dr. Umesh R. Khadane ions, hybrid molecular ions and cluster ions

14Annual Report 2013-14 Annual Report 2013-142 22. Design of autonomous walking Humanoid Robot Sam K. Zachariah

23. Rocket Injector Spray studies Dr. V. Aravind

24. Active suspension wheeled rovers on uneven terrain Dr. Kurien Issac, Sam Noble

25. Whirling beam experiments for flapping wing micro aerial Dr. Kurien Issac, vehicles Dr. G. Rajesh

In addition to the above projects, the following research programmes are envisaged in line with NASA/CALTECH programmes so that the research carried out in IIST will be useful for ISRO programmes in future.

01. Decoder for CCDS recommended turbo codes IIST/VSSC

02. Development of tactile sensor for under actuated robotic IIST/VSSC hand

03 Design and development of an integrated enterprise network IIST/VSSC security system

04. Study of switching topologies and control schemes for IIST/VSSC isolated DC/DC converters

05. Design and implementation of a compact wideband micro IIST/VSSC strip patch antenna

06. Fabrication and characterization of grapheme based RF IIST/SAC transistor

07. Design and development of high performance Hydrogen IIST/PRC sensor

08. Development of a virtual reality model for disaster IIST/NRSC simulation

09. Object based high resolution (optical) image analysis for IIST/NRSC land slide, land use and land cover classification

10. Design and development of brushless DC motor IIST/NRSC

11. PDPA system for 3 component velocity and droplet size IIST/LPSC distribution

12. Comprehensive stationery plasma thruster diagnostics IIST/LPSC instrumentation

13. Flexible wiping substrate for SERS detection of explosives IIST/VSSC

14. Silicon grapheme based composite as anode material for IIST/VSSC lithium battery cells

Annual Report 2013-14 1 15 15. Ceramic foam by emulsion casting IIST/VSSC

16. Development of carbon foam-CMC sandwich composites IIST/VSSC

17. Intrinsically conducting polymide composite with CNT or IIST/VSSC grapheme having electrostatic charge mitigating characteristics for space applications

18. Space Technology and its mediation into socio economic IIST/DECU space of householdvehicles

CLIMATE OBSERVATORY AT PONMUDI A climate observatory was established, as part of IIST's research facility, over Ponmudi hills o o (1081meter asl; 8 45’26"N, 77 6’50"E) for intensive measurements of aerosol-cloud-turbulence-solar radiation parameters. The purpose was to obtain representative statistics of cloud properties which were needed to understand cloud microphysical studies of processes. Ponmudi hills are in the southern tip of Western Ghats close to Thiruvananthapuram and this location is known for the highest occurrence of clouds throughout the year. The research consists of: creating an integrated observational data set of aerosol-cloud-turbulence-solar radiation to quantifying the cloud radiative forcing, and quantitative understanding of aerosol-cloud interaction under varying meteorological conditions and their role in the Earth's climate system.

CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE

Advanced Propulsion and Laser Diagnostics (APLD) Laboratory

Department of Aerospace Engineering has established a centre of exellence in Advanced Propulsion and Laser Diagnostics (APLD) which will serve as (i) centre for conducting academic research in IIST which would assist ISRO activities, (ii) national facility for performing advanced research and (iii) national technological development centre for aerospace organizations. The APLD facility will be established in three phases. The first phase will focus on the establishment of basic facilities for the academic programmes in IIST, including research. The further expansion is aimed at generating ample

16 Annual Report 2013-142 for scientific and academic research at the national level and the end objective of building and setting up the centre is to compliment the needs of ISRO's research and technological development.

The current objective is to perform propulsion research studies through laser diagnostic techniques. The short term scope and objective of setting up the laboratory is to primarily focus on applying 10 Hz and 1 MHz laser diagnostic techniques to basic propulsion facilities while the long term goal is to apply it to real scale engines that are most relevant to ISRO's technological development. The laboratory currently have the capability to perform PIV and PLIF measurements, and is equipped with: (i) Double Pulsed Nd-YAG PIV Laser , (ii) Precision Dye Laser, (iii) Intensified CCD Camera, (iv) PIV CCD Camera (v) High Resolution Wavemeter, (vi) Optical Tables, (vii) Optical Components and (viii) High Speed DAQ System. The lab will be upgraded with a second dye laser for two line LIF thermometry measurements and particle size analyser for droplet size measurements. The basic propulsion facilities established are (i) Test Setup for Rocket Injector Spray Characterization from atmospheric to critical conditions, (ii) Single Element Coaxial Combustion Facility, and (iii) Supersonic Free Jet Facility for dual bell nozzle characterization and cavity induced oscillations.

In the year 2013-14 the installation of the Double Pulsed Nd-YAG PIV Laser and Precision Dye Laser was successfully completed. Efforts were also invested in establishing Single Element Shear Coaxial Combustion Setup and proof of concept demonstration of OH-PLIF in LPG-Air Shear Coaxial Flame was carried out using the laser and camera system. Laser Diagnostic Facility for OH-PLIF concentration measurements from flame and the proof of concept demonstration in IIST will compliment ISRO's research needs and will contribute to ISRO's Injector design, characterization and development in future.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 17 Virtual Reality Laboratory

Department of Avionics has established the center of excellence in Virtual Reality for various space and scientific applications. The development is planned in three phases. In the first phase, Desktop VR Lab consisting of high-end workstation with latest graphic capabilities, 3D monitors, 3D vision-pro glasses and application software such as Vizard, Blender, Google Sketch, Adobe Master Suit collection, 3D Max and Maya were procured. The facility will be scaled up by creating an immersive studio type Virtual reality center in phases 2 and 3. The proposed facility will be supported by advanced haptic devices, sensors and force feedback systems for various real life application such as navigation, fly through etc. Some objectives to establish center of excellence in Virtual Reality are the following:

1. Provide UG/PG students enough infrastructures to get hands on exposure on VR experiments and developments. 2. Develop VR simulations for ISRO using data captured by different satellite and high- performance camera. 3. Develop sophisticated and advanced VR library in open source domain for variety of purposes. 4. Exploit this facility for aerospace, atmospheric, astronomical, computer vision and humanities research areas by collaborating with different department within and outside IIST.

Research and development objectives of VR lab

1. Research in Space application a. Planetary exploration b. Indigenous software development c. Design of VR test bed prototype d. Virtual prototyping of space shuttle e. Virtual walk/fly through 2. General research areas a. Disaster modeling and simulation b. 3-d VR visualization of compounds and chemical c. For theoretical and nonlinear dynamical studies. d. Developing VR teaching simulations for better understanding of the concepts in different key subjects of Avionics, aerospace, Physical science and humanities

18Annual Report 2013-14 Annual Report 2013-142 Center for Advanced Research in Nanoscience and Technology Department of Chemistry has established a Centre for Advanced Research in Nanoscience and Technology to facilitate and augment the activities in Nanoscience and Technology and to address challenges in Space Science and Technology and related areas,

Currently the facilities such as Atomic Force Microscope, Particle Size Analyzer, Glove Box, electrospinning machine, contact angle goniometer, HPLC, planetary ball mill and surface area analyser are available in the centre. Procedures to procure X-ray Diffractometer and Plasma Reactor are in progress. Facilities in the centre assist the research activities in the department significantly.

STUDENT PROJECTS

Student projects are carried out in IIST under the guidance of IIST faculty and ISRO scientists. The objective is to provide the students hands-on experience and knowledge to work as a team in the design, development and building of space systems.

Sounding Rocket Project After the successful launch of the sounding rocket, Vyom, on May 11, 2012, which has a capability to carry a payload of 10 kg to an altitude of 14 km, IIST has taken up the design of Vyom Mk II. The aim of Vyom MkII is to carry a maximum payload of 15-20 kg to a peak altitude of 70 km. It is a challenging aim, as the mission objectives have to be achieved while maintaining the simplicity and reliability of a single stage rocket. The subsystem requirement specifications are being drawn up, based on detailed discussion within IIST and inputs from VSSC. Conceptual design and sizing studies are in progress under the guidance of IIST faculty and VSSC specialists. The work involves design and analysis studies in Aerodynamics, Solid Motor Propulsion, Structural Analysis and Flight Mechanics, the four major areas in Aerospace

Annual Report 2013-14 1 19 Engineering. Preliminary solid motor sizing studies and initial trajectory studies have been carried out. A single stage rocket with and without payload separation is being studied.

A novel Multi-objective Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimization (MO-MDO) approach is being attempted in the design of the sounding rocket. As part of the above initiative, an MO-MDO study has been conducted to design the fin for the rocket based on fixed propulsion inputs. A paper based on the above study won the second best paper award in the ASET-2014 conference conducted by the Aeronautical Society of India. A manuscript based on more refined work is being communicated to an international journal. The objectives of the study were: maximization of the altitude, maximization of payload mass, maximization of static margin, and minimization of fin tip torsion angle. Propulsion system optimization studies incorporating aerodynamic and trajectory analysis have also been initiated. Preliminary CFD studies are also in progress to validate the data obtained from engineering methods.

Like its predecessor, Vyom Mk II project remains a student-centered activity where students get a real life exposure in the design of a live Aerospace vehicle project under the direction and guidance of Aerospace professionals from IIST and ISRO. It allows them to relate what they learn in classrooms with the state-of-the-art practice in industry.

Nano-Satellite Project The students have conceived a 3-axis stabilized nano-satellite of mass less than 2 kilograms. The conceptual design of the satellite has been completed and the payload and components have been identified, based on the functional requirements and availability. The nano-satellite is to be launched in a polar sun synchronous orbit of about 670 km altitude as a piggyback payload in the PSLV rocket.

Prototype of Electrical Power System is ready and EMI/EMC tests are being conducted on it. The payload is chosen to be Geiger muller counter and a breadboard version of it is ready. Miniaturisation and PCB fabrication of payload is under progress. The subsystems on communication, on board computer and attitude dynamics are in the advanced stage of development.

20Annual Report 2013-14 Annual Report 2013-142 PATENTS APPLIED

 V.S. Sooraj , V. Radhakrishnan, Nirmala James, “Multipurpose resilient elasto-magnetic- abrasive spheres for fine finishing of surfaces”, applied for Indian patent, filed on July 26, 2013

 K. G. Sreejalekshmi and S. Titus. 'Substituted 4-hydrazinothiazoles and processes for their preparation' Indian Patent Filed: 2462/CHE/2013, June 18, 2013.

 K. Joseph and V. Raj. "Detection of infertility using gold nanoparticles based fructose sensor." Patent No.4962/CHE/2013, November 1, 2013.

 K. Joseph and V. Raj. "Rapid and naked eye detection of cholesterol in serum using tomatine assembled gold nanoparticles" Patent No.2747/CHE/2013, July 26, 2013.

 K. Prabhakaran, R. Narasimman. “Process for the preparation of high density carbon foams” Indian Patent File No. 6108/CHE/2013, December 26, 2013.

PUBLICATIONS

i) JOURNAL PAPERS Department of Aerospace Engineering

 C. R. Bijudas, M. Mitra, P. M. Mujumdar. (2013). “Time reversed Lamb wave for damage detection in a stiffened aluminum plate”. Smart Materials and Structures, 22 (10): pp. 105026.

 C.R. Bijudas, M. Mitra, P. M. Mujumdar. (2013). “Coupling effect of piezoelectric wafer transducers in distortions of primary Lamb wave modes”. Smart Materials and Structures, 22 (6):pp. 065007.

 Gokul Ananth M, Sathish Babu B, Chakravarthy P, Jayakumar K. (2013). “Experimental Investigations on Electron Beam Welding of Austenitic/Ferritic Stainless Steel for Space Applications“. International Journal of Research in Mechanical Engineering and Technology, 3: pp. 45-50.

 K. Kiran Sagar, Aman Raj Verma, Pankaj Priyadarshi. (2014). "Comment on “Aeroship: A Hybrid Flight Platform”. AIAA Journal of Aircraft, 51(2): pp. 701-701.

 L.N. Sulbhewar, P. Raveendranath. (2013).” Assessment of induced potential effects on the performance of piezoelectric beam finite elements”. International Journal of Aerospace and Lightweight Structures, 3(4): pp. 513-530.

 L.N. Sulbhewar, P. Raveendranath. (2014). “A novel efficient coupled polynomial field interpolation scheme for higher order piezoelectric extension mode beam finite elements”. Smart Materials and Structures, 23:pp. 25024-25033.

 L.N. Sulbhewar, P. Raveendranath. (2014). “An accurate novel coupled field Timoshenko piezoelectric beam finite element with induced potential effects”. Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures, 11(9): pp. 1628-1650.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 21  D. Agarwal, P. Basu, T. J. Tharakan, Salih, A. (2014), “Prediction of Gas-Core Vortices during Draining of Liquid Propellants from Tanks”, Aerospace Science and Technology, 32 (1): pp. 60-65.

 A. Salih, S. Ghosh Moulic (2013), “A Mass Conservation Scheme for Level Set Method Applied to Multiphase Incompressible Flows”, International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science & Mechanics, 14 (4): pp. 271-289.

 P. Basu, D. Agarwal, T.J. Tharakan, A. Salih (2013), “Numerical Studies on Air-Core Vortex Formation during Draining of Liquids from Tanks”, International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research, 40 (1): pp. 27-41.

 K. Kiran Sagar, Aman Raj Verma, Pankaj Priyadarshi (2014), “Comment on “Aeroship: A Hybrid Flight Platform”, AIAA Journal of Aircraft, 51(2), pp. 701-701.

 R. V. Ramanan (2013), “Interplanetary Mission Opportunities”, Planex Newsletter (PRL, Ahmedabad), 3(2): ISSN: 2320-7108.

 V. Adimurthy, R. V. Ramanan (2014), “Mars Orbiter Mission: An overview”, Planex Newsletter (PRL, Ahmedabad), 4(1): ISSN: 2320- 7108

 Litesh N. Sulbhewar, P. Raveendranath. (2014). “Geometric effects on the accuracy of Euler-Bernoulli piezoelectric smart beam finite elements”. Advanced Materials Research, 984- 985, pp. 1063-1073.

 Muthukumaran C. K., Vaidyanathan A. (2014). “Experimental study of elliptical jet from sub to supercritical conditions”. Physics of Fluids, 26 (4), pp: 044104.

 Habisreuther P., Galeazzo F.C.C., Prathap C., Zarzalis N. (2013). “Structure of laminar premixed flames of methane near the auto-ignition limit”. Combustion and Flame, 160: pp. 2770-2782.

 Sai Krupa M., Dileep Kumar N., Suresh Kumar R., Chakravarthy P., Karodi Venkateshwarulu. (2013). “Effect of Zirconium Diboride Addition on the Properties of Silicon Carbide Composites”. Ceramics International, 39 (8): pp. 95679574.

 Shine S. R., Sunil Kumar S., Suresh B. N. (2013). “Internal wall-jet film cooling with compound angle cylindrical holes”. Energy Conversion and Management. 68, pp: 54-62.

 Shine S. R., Sunil Kumar S., Suresh B. N. (2013). “Numerical Study of Wave Disturbance in Liquid Cooling Film”. Propulsion and Power Research, 2, pp: 107-118.

 Shine S. R., Sunil Kumar S. (2013). “Role of gaseous film cooling injector orientation in duct flow: Experimental Study”. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 48, pp 40-45.

 V.S. Sooraj, V. Radhakrishnan. (2013). “Elastic impact of abrasives for controlled erosion in fine finishing of surfaces”. Manufacturing Science and Engineering (ASME) : 135(5), 051019. 22 Annual Report 2013-142  V.S. Sooraj, V. Radhakrishnan. (2014). “Fine finishing of internal surfaces using elastic abrasives”. International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture (Elsevier),78, pp:30-40.

 V.S. Sooraj, V. Radhakrishnan. (2014). “Prospective methodologies to use impact wear for micro/nano finishing of surfaces”. International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management (Inderscience), 28, pp: 94 -113

 Agarwal D. K., Vaidyanathan A., Kumar S.S. (2013). “Synthesis and Characterization of kerosene/Alumina Nanofluids”. Applied Thermal Engineering, 60, pp. 275-284.

 Vinoth B. R., Panigrahi P. K. (2014). “Characteristics of low Reynolds number non- Boussinesq fountains from non-circular sources”. Physics of Fluids, 26, 014106. Department of Avionics

 Ameya Anil Kesarkar, N. Selvaganesan. (2013). “Superiority of fractional order controllers in limit cycle suppression”. Int. J. of Automation and Control, 7(3): pp.166 182.

 C. Saha, J.Y. Siddiqui., Y.M.M. Antar. (2014) “Compact SRR Loaded UWB Circular Monopole Antenna with Frequency Notch Characteristics”. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 62,(8):pp 4015-4020.

 D. Keerthi Priya, M.Vanidevi. (2014). “Rapid Prototyping Framework for PHY WLAN OFDM Transmitter on Reconfigurable Platforms”. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Educational Research. 3 (10), pp.121-125.

 R. K. Yadav, Manoj Balakrishnan. (2014). “Comparative evaluation of ARIMA and ANFIS for modeling of wireless network traffic time series”. Springer/EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, doi:10.1186/1687-1499-2014-15.

 Mithun P., Vishnu R., Anand Shankar., Deepak Mishra. (2013). “Virtual Reality: scope and challenges”. Arni University International Journal, 2 (1): ISSN: 2278 4241: pp. 20-25

 Kumar P.R., Rajeevan P.P., Mathew K., Gopakumar K., Leon J.I., Franquelo L.G. (2014). “A Three-Level Common-Mode Voltage Eliminated Inverter With Single DC Supply Using Flying Capacitor Inverter and Cascaded H-Bridge”. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 29(3): pp. 1402 1409.

 G. S. Reddy, A. Kama, Sanjeev K Mishra, J. Mukherjee.(2014). "Compact Bluetooth/UWB Dual-Band Planar Antenna with Quadruple Band-Notch Characteristics". IEEE Antennas and Wireless propagation letters, 13: pp. 872-875.

 A Vaidya, R K Gupta, Sanjeev K Mishra, J. Mukherjee. (2014). “Right-Hand / Left-Hand Circularly Polarized High Gain Antennas using Partially Reflective Surfaces”.IEEE Antennas and Wireless propagation Letters. 13: pp. 431-434

 G. S. Reddy, A. Chittora, S. Kharche, Sanjeev K. Mishra, and J. Mukherjee,(2013), “Bluetooth/UWB dual-band planar diversity antenna with WiMAX and WLAN band-notch characteristics,”Progress In Electromagnetics Research PIER B, 54:pp 303-319.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 23  Waghmare R. G., Mishra D., Sai Subrahmanyam G. R. K., Earu Banoth (2014). “Signal Tracking Approach for Phase Estimation in Digital Holographic Interferometry”. Applied Optics, 53(18). Department of Chemistry

 C.P. Reghunadhan Nair, C.H.D.V. Prasad, K.N. Ninan. (2013).”HTPB Based Solid Propellants, Dependency of Slurry Viscosity on Process Parameters". J Energy and Chem. Engineering, pp. 10-14.

 C.P. Reghunadhan Nair, J.U. Bhaskar, K.N. Ninan. (2013)."Polyurethane from Hydroxyl Terminated Polybutadiene; Effect of Hydroxyl Value on Cross linking and Mechanical Properties". J. Polym. Mater, 30 (4):pp 363-379.

 G. George, K. Joseph, E.R. Nagarajan, E.T. Jose, M. Skrifvars. (2013).”Thermal, calorimetric and crystallization behaviour of polypropylene/jute yarn bio-composites fabricated by commingling technique”. Composites part A: Applied science and Manufacturing, 48: pp.110- 120.

 G. George, K. Joseph, E.R. Nagarajan, E.T. Jose., K.C. George. (2013).”Dielectric behavior of PP/jute yarn commingled composites: Effect of fibre content, chemical treatments, temperature and moisture”. Composites Part A: Appl. Sci. and Manuf., 47:pp 12-21.

 M. Kannan, S.S. Bhagawan, S. Thomas, K. Joseph. (2013).”Studies on electrical properties of nanoclay filled thermoplastic polyurethane/polypropylene blends”. Polymer composites.

 M. Kannan, S.S. Bhagawan, S. Thomas, K. Joseph. (2013). ”Nanoclay effect on transport properties of thermoplastic polyurethane/polypropylene (TPU/PP) blends”. Journal of polymer Research 20(8):pp 1-15.

 H.J. Maria, N. Lyczko, A. Nzihou, K. Joseph, C. Mathew, S. Thomas. (2013).”Stress relaxation behaviour of organically modified montmorillonite filled natural rubber/nitrile rubber nanocomposites”. Applied Clay Science,

 L.S. Deepthi, R. Rajeev, K.P. Vijayalekshmi, K. Prabhakaran, K.N. Ninan. (2013). “Supramolecular - cyclodextrin aniline system: a new class of amine on solid support for carbon dioxide capture with high amine efficiency”. RSC Adv, 3 pp: 24041-24045.

 M. M. Ali, K.Y. Sandhya. (2014).'' Visible light responsive titanium dioxide cyclodextrin fullerene composite with reduced charge recombination and enhanced photocatalytic activity”. Carbon ,70:pp 249-257.

 K.S. Anju, S. Mahesh, N. Kalarikkal. (2014). ''Interaction of phospholipid with silver nanorods''. AIP Proceedings, 1576(1): pp. 132-134.

 Narita X. Feng, Y. Hernandez, S.A Jensen, Bonn G, Fytas O, Ivasenko B. Li, K.S. Mali, T. Balandina, S. Mahesh, S. De Feyter, K. Müllen. (2014). ''Synthesis of structurally well-defined and liquid-phase-processable graphene nanoribbons”. Nature Chemistry, 6: pp.126-132.

24 Annual Report 2013-142  T. Remyamol, J. Honey, P. Gopinath. (2013). “Grafting of self assembled polyaniline nanorods on reduced graphene oxide for nonlinear optical application”. Synthetic Metals, 185- 186: pp.38-44.

 R. Narasimman, K. Prabhakaran. (2013). “Effect of Blowing agents on the oxidation resistance of carbon foams from molten sucrose”. AIP Conf. Proc. 1538, pp. 48-51.

 R. Narasimman, K. Prabhakaran. (2013). “Preparation of carbon foams with enhanced oxidation resistance by foaming molten sucrose using a boric acid blowing agent”. Carbon 55: pp 305-3012.

 S. Vijayan, R. Narasimman, K. Prabhakaran. (2013). “A urea crystal templating method for the preparation of porous alumina ceramics with the aligned pores”. J. Eur .Ceram. Soc. 33: pp. 1929-1934.

 S. Vijayan, R. Narasimman, K. Prabhakaran. (2013). “Dispersion and setting of powder suspensions in concentrated aqueous urea solutions for the preparation of porous alumina ceramics with aligned pores”. J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 96: pp. 2779-2784.

 T. Remyamol, P. Gopinath, J. Honey. (2013). “Phenylene diamine mediated covalent grafting of polyaniline on reduced graphene oxide for optical limiting”. International conference on advanced nanomaterials and emerging engineering technologies, IEEE conference proceeding, pp. 204-207.

 Haripadmam P. C., Honey John., Reji Philip., Pramod Gopinath. (2014). “Enhanced optical limiting in polystyrene-ZnO nanotop composite films”. Optics Letters, 39: pp. 474-477.

 Kavitha M. K, Honey John, Pramod Gopinath. (2014). “Polyvinyl pyrrolidone assisted low temperature synthesis of ZnO nanocones and its linear and nonlinear optical studies”. Materials Research Bulletin, 49: pp. 132-137.

 Kavitha M. K., Honey John, Pramod Gopinath, Reji Philip. (2013). “Synthesis of reduced graphene oxide-ZnO hybrid with enhanced optical limiting property”. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 1: pp. 3669-3676.

 Kavitha M. K., Haripadmam P. C., Pramod Gopinath, Bindu Krishnan., Honey John. (2013). “Effect of morphology and solvent on two-photon absorption of nano zinc oxide”. Materials Research Bulletin, 48 (5): pp. 1967-1971.

 V. Raj, A.N Vijayan, K. Joseph. (2014)."Naked eye detection of infertility using fructose blue- A novel gold nanoparticle based fructose sensor". Biosensors and Bioelectronics 54:pp 171- 174. Department of Earth and Space Sciences

 S. Muzahid, R. Srianand, N. Arav, B. D. Savage, A. Narayanan. (2013). “ HST/COS observations of a new population of associated QSO absorbers”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 431: pp. 2885.

 M. Dhanya, A Chandrasekar. (2014). “Improved Rainfall Simulation by Assimilating

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 Oceansat-2 Surface Winds Using Ensemble Kalman Filter for a Heavy Rainfall Event overSouth India”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2317501

 R. Kumar, I. Chattopadhyay, S. Mandal. (2014) “Radiatively and thermally driven self- consistent bipolar outflows from accretion discs around compact objects”. MNRAS, 437: pp. 2992.

Department of Humanities

 Justin Babitha, Smrti K.P. (2013). “Before and After: A Look at the Writings of Travel by the British Women in India''. Contemporary Literary Review of India. CLRI Print Edition ISSN 2250-3366. 99-115

 Nair Lekshmi V. (2013). “Migration and its Impact: Empty Nest Syndrome among the rural Elderly.” Annual Journal of Social Work, 11(1).

 Nair Lekshmi V. (2013). “Suicide in Kerala, India- A Critical Analysis”. International Journal of Social Science Research, 2(1), pp13.

 Nair Lekshmi V. (2014). “Ageing In India - A Conceptual Clarification In The Background Of Globalization”. European Scientific Journal, 10 (2).

 Nair Lekshmi V., Shaijumon C. S. (2013). “Space Technology: Its penetration into the educational sector of India, Kerala Sociologist, Kerala Sociological Society, 41(1):pp. 14-27.

 Ravi V., Shankar R. (2014). “A survey of reverse logistics practices in Indian manufacturing industries”. Benchmarking : An International Journal.

 Shaijumon C. S. (2014). “Role of ICT Institutions in Enhancing Productivity, Knowledge and Innovativeness of Farmers: A Case Study of ISRO Village Resource Centers”, Economic Affairs, 59(1):pp. 63-74.

 Shaijumon C. S. (2014). “Institutions and Technology Diffusion In Agriculture: Role of ISRO Village Resource Centers”, European Scientific Journal, 10: pp. 1857 1881.

 Shaijumon C .S. (2013). “ Indian Economy in the Post Neo-Liberal Era: Dead Ends and Stumbling Blocks”. Littcrit, 39: pp. 203-209.

Department of Mathematics

 N.Sabu, J.Raja (2013).“Two dimensional approximation of piezoelectric shallow shells with variable thickness”, Proceedings of National Academy of Science, Physical Sciences, India. Sec A, 84, (1):pp. 71-81.

 Raju K. George and Bhaskar Dubey(2013). “A note on the evolution of solutions of a system of ordinary differential equations with fuzzy initial conditions and fuzzy inputs”, Journal of Uncertain Systems, 7( 4): pp. 294-302.

 Raju K. George, B. Dubey (2013), “Controllability of semilinear matrix Lyapunov systems”, Electronic Journal of Differential Equations (42):pp. 1-12. 26 Annual Report 2013-142  Sarvesh Kumar (2013). “On the Approximation of Incompressible Miscible Displacement Problems in Porous Media by Mixed and Standard Finite Volume Element Methods'', International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing, 4,(3): 1350013.

 Sumitra S. Nair and T. J. Todd. (2013). “Supervised Preclustering for Sparse Regression” International Journal of Systems Science DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2013.811312. Department of Physics

 Kavita Jain, Apoorva Nagar. (2013). “Fixation of Mutators in Asexual Populations: The Role of Genetic Drift and Epistasis”. Evolution, 67: pp. 11431154.

 Haripadmam P. C., Honey John., Reji Philip., Pramod Gopinath. (2014). “Enhanced optical limiting in polystyrene-ZnO nanotop composite films”. Optics Letters, 39: pp. 474-477.

 J Solomon Ivan, KrishnaKumar Sabapathy., R Simon. (2013). “Nonclassicality breaking is the same as entanglement breaking for bosonic Gaussian channels”. Physical Review A, 88:pp. 032302.

 S. Jayanthi, M. Werner, G. Buntkowsky, S. Vega. (2013). “Restricted Dynamics of a deuterated linker grafted on SBA-15 revealed by Deuterium MAS NMR”. J. Phys. Chem. C, 117 (25): pp. 13114 13121.

 S. Jayanthi, U. Akbey, B. Uluca, H. Oschkinat, S. Vega. (2013). “A Floquet Description of Phase Alternated Homonuclear Recoupling Sequence for Perdeuterated Systems in the Solid State”, J. Magn. Reson. 234: pp. 10 20.

 V. Aravindan, K.B. Jinesh, R. Ramanujam, S. Madhavi. (2013). “Atomic layer deposited (ALD) SnO2 anodes with exceptional cycleability for Li-ion batteries”. Nano Energy, 2: pp. 270.

 X. Zing, S.S. Pramana, S.G. Mhaisalkar, X. Chen, K.B. Jinesh. (2013). “Low-temperature synthesis of wurtzite zinc sulfide thin films by chemical spray pyrolysis”. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 15: pp. 6763.

 T. Viet, M. Rao, P. Andreasson, K.B. Jinesh. (2013). “Carrier dynamics of CuxO thin films deposited using radio frequency magnetron sputtering”. Appl. Phys. Lett., 102: pp. 032101.

 Kavitha M. K, Honey John, Pramod Gopinath. (2014). “Polyvinyl pyrrolidone assisted low temperature synthesis of ZnO nanocones and its linear and nonlinear optical studies”. Materials Research Bulletin, 49: pp. 132-137.

 Kavitha M. K., Honey John, Pramod Gopinath, Reji Philip. (2013). “Synthesis of reduced graphene oxide-ZnO hybrid with enhanced optical limiting property”. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 1: pp. 3669-3676.

 Kavitha M. K., Haripadmam P. C., Pramod Gopinath, Bindu Krishnan., Honey John. (2013). “Effect of morphology and solvent on two-photon absorption of nano zinc oxide”. Materials Research Bulletin, 48 (5): pp. 1967-1971. Annual Report 2013-14 1 27  Mishra P. M., Rajput J., Safvan C. P., Vig S., Kadhane U. (2013). “Electron emission and electron transfer processes in proton-naphthalene collisions at intermediate velocities”. Physical Review A, 88: pp. 052707.

 Mishra P. M., Rajput J., Safvan C. P., Vig S., Kadhane U. (2014). “Velocity dependence of fragmentation yields in proton-naphthalene collision and comparison with electronic energy loss calculation”. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 47: pp. 085202-11.

 Mishra P. M., Avaldi L., Bolognesi P., Prince K. C., Richter R. Kadhane U. (2014). “Valence shell photoelectron spectroscopy of pyrene and fluorene: photon energy dependence in the far ultraviolet region”. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 118: pp. 3128-3135.

 Mishra P. M., Avaldi L., Bolognesi P., Prince K. C., Richter R. Kadhane U. (2014). “Valence shell photoelectron spectroscopy of pyrene and fluorene: photon energy dependence in the far ultraviolet region”. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 118: pp. 3128-3135.

 Mishra, P. M., Kadhane U. (2014). “Monte Carlo simulation of electronic energy loss for proton impact on nucleobases”. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B.

 Rakesh Kumar Singh, Vinu R.V., Anandraj Sharma M. (2014). “Recovery of complex valued objects from two-point intensity correlation measurement”. Applied Phys. Lett., 104: 111108.

 Remyamol T., Pramod Gopinath, Honey John. (2013). “Grafting of self assembled polyaniline nanorods on reduced graphene oxide for nonlinear optical application”. Synthetic Metals, 185-186: pp. 38-44.

 T. Remyamol, P. Gopinath, J. Honey. (2013). “Phenylene diamine mediated covalent grafting of polyaniline on reduced graphene oxide for optical limiting”. International conference on advanced nanomaterials and emerging engineering technologies, IEEE conference proceeding, pp. 204-207.  Manoj Kumar Sharma, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Joby Joseph., P. Senthilkumaran. (2014). “Optical transfer function of an optical system with spiral zone masks in presence of primary aberrations ”, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 57: pp. 48.

 Rakesh Kumar Singh, Dinesh N. Naik, Hitoshi Itou, Maruthi M. Brundavanam, Yoko Miyamoto., Mitsuo Takeda. (2013). “Vectorial van Cittert-Zernike theorem based on spatial averaging: experimental demonstration”. Opt. Lett. 38: pp. 4809.

 Rohith M., Sudheesh C. (2014). “Fractional revivals of superposed coherent states”. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 47: pp. 045504: 1-9.

 Sanid C., Murugesh S. (2013). "Spin-Transfer-Torque driven magneto-logic OR, AND, NOT gates". Euro. Phys. J. ST., 222: pp. 711-719.

 Sanid C., Murugesh S. (2014). "Synchronization and Chaos in Spin-Transfer-Torque Nano- Oscillators Coupled Via a High Speed Op Amp". J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 47: pp. 065005: 1-9. 28 Annual Report 2013-142  Vinu R. V., Manoj Kumar Sharma., Rakesh Kumar Singh, P. Senthilkumaran. (2014). “Generation of spatial coherence comb using Dammann grating”, Opt. Lett.. 39: pp. 2407.

ii) CONFERENCE PAPERS Department of Aerospace Engineering

 Ankit Soni, Pankaj Priyadarshi . “Finite Element Analysis and Optimization of a Beam Type Load Cell for an External Balance Design,” Proceedings of National Conference on Wind Tunnel Testing, NCWT-03, Trivandrum ,August 23-24, 2013.

 Archana Ravindran, Pankaj Priyadarshi. “Investigation of Stagnation Point Location Anomaly Over Blunt Hypersonic Re-Entry Vehicles,” Proceedings of the 22th National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference , IIT Kharagpur, December 28-31,2013.

 Mohammed A. S., Arun C. O. “Towards and Ecco-Friendly Concrete with Waste Glass and Rice Husk Ash”, International Conference on Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Rourkela, December 2013.

 Neha Chohan, Pankaj Priyadarshi. “Multi-Objective Aerodynamic Optimization of a Hypersonic Scramjet Inlet ,” Symposium on Applied Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace Vehicle (SAROD 2013), Hyderabad ,November 21-23, 2013.

 Pankaj Priyadarshi, V. Adimurthy, Sanjay Mittal. “Accelerated Elite-Attractor Genetic Algorithm (A-EA-GA) for obtaining Steady, Diverse and Fast Pareto Optimal Solutions”, Poster presentation in IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence: Theories, Applications and Future Directions, July 14, 2013.

 Shine S. R., Jeswin Joseph. “Temperature prediction in near-space environment”, 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Kharagpur.

 Tambe, S. and Salih, A., “Numerical Study of Liquid Sloshing with Experimental Validation”, 6th Symposium on Applied Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace Vehicles – SAROD, November 2013.

 Geethu N, Geethu Lisba Jacob, Ramanan R.V.,'Mars Entry Mission : Bank angle modulation for landing at a target site', pp. 554-560, 6th symposium on Applied Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace Vehicles-SAROD, November 2013.

 Jeswin Joseph, Shine, S. R., “Coolant gas injection on a blunt-nosed re-entry vehicle”, ASME 2013 Gas Turbine India Conference, December 2013.

 Sulbhewar L.N., Raveendranath P., “Importance of accommodating induced potential effects in modeling of piezoelectric smart beams”, 4th Nirma University International Conference on Engineering, November 2013.

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 Sulbhewar L.N. , Raveendranath P., 2014, “Effect of higher order through-thickness potential on the performance of Timoshenko piezoelectric smart beam finite elements”, 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control ISCO, January 2014.

 Akshay Narayan, Harshit Nema and Anup S., “Comparison of Idealized and Actual Model of Nanostructure of Bone – A Molecular Dynamics Analysis”, Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM), July 2013.

 Mathiazhagan.S and Anup S., “Mechanical behavior of Bone Nanostructure using Molecular Dynamics Methods”, Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM), July 2013.

 Shine S R., J. C. Pisharady. “Experimental Investigation of Film Cooling in Rocket Nozzles”, Symposium on Applied Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace Vehicle, SAROD 2013, Hyderabad , November 21-23, 2013.

 Shine S. R., Leksyakumar , “Coolant gas injection on a blunt-nosed re-entry vehicle”, ASME 2013 Gas Turbine India Conference, GTIndia 2013 , Bangalore, December 5-6, 2013.

 V. S. Sooraj, V. Radhakrishnan. “Surface finishing using elastomeric magnetic abrasive balls”, International Conference on Precision Meso Micro Nano Engineering (COPEN), December 2013.

 V. S. Sooraj., S. Alisha., P. Manohar., V. Radhakrishnan. “Finishing of small diameter high aspect ratio holes using elastic abrasive wires”, International Conference on Precision Meso Micro Nano Engineering (COPEN), December 2013.

 Sooraj V S, Radhakrishnan V, Elastic impact of abrasives for controlled erosion in fine finishing of surfaces, accepted for publication in Manufacturing Science and Engineering.

 Agarwal D.K., Peter J., Vaidyanathan A., Kumar, S.S. “Experimental investigation of kerosene-alumina nanofluid for heat transfer application”, HMTC1300316, 22nd National and 11th ISHMT ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Kharagpur , December 2013.

 Muthukumaran C. K., Vaidyanathan A, “Flow Characteristics of Elliptical Jet from Sub to Supercritical Conditions”, HMTC1300411, 22nd National and 11th ISHMT ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Kharagpur, December 2013.

 Chavali Krishna Bharadwaj, Rajesh Joseph Abraham, Optimised Automatic Generation Control of a Hydrothermal Power System with Capacitive Energy Storage, Journal of Electrical Systems, vol. 8, no. 1, 35-46, March 2012.

Department of Avionics

 Ameya Anil Kesarkar, N.Selvaganesan. “Fractional Control of Precision Modular Servo Setup for Better Limit Cycle Suppression”, IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, pp. 467-471. August 28-30, 2013.

 R. K. Yadav, B. S. Manoj. “On the Use of Undirected Probabilistic Graphical Modeling for Cognitive Wireless Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE INDICON, December 2013.

30 Annual Report 2013-142  C. Saha, J. Y .Siddiqui, Yahia M.M. Antar . “Compact SRR Loaded UWB Circular Monopole Antenna with Reconfigurable Characteristics” In the proceeding of International Conference on IEEE APS (Orlando, Florida, USA), July 7-13, 2013.

 C. Saha, L. Ahmed, J.Y. Siddiqui. “Design of a Frequency Notched UWB Antenna Using Circular Split Ring Resonator and Its Complimentary Structure ”, In the proceeding of International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Propagation and Remote Sensing, ICMARS 2013, December 11-14, 2013.

 C.Saha, “Compact Multiple SRR loaded UWB Circular Monopole Antenna with Dual Frequency Notch Characteristics” , In the proceeding of Regional Conference on Radio Science (URSI- RCRS 2014), January 2-5,2014 :pp.54.

 L. Ahmed, C.Saha , J.Y. Siddiqui. “Metamaterial-based Electrically Small Antenna Designed for GSM and ISM Applications” , In the proceeding of National Conference, ATMS 2014, February 10- 12, 2014 : pp.178-181.

 P. Natani, S Kapoor, C.Saha, S. Kumar . “Design of Slotted Waveguide Array Antenna Fed by H-Plane Power Divider ”, In the proceeding of National Conference, ATMS 2014, February 10- 12, 2014 :pp.218-222.

 S.S. Chaudhury, C.Saha, J.Y.Siddiqui. “Triangular Split Ring Resonator Loaded UWB Circular Monopole Antenna with Frequency Notch Characteristics”, In the proceeding of National Conference, ATMS 2014, February 10-12, 2014:pp.256-259.

 C.Saha, L.Ahmed, J.Y.Siddiqui. “Design of a Multilayered Stacked Square SRR Coupled CPW for Dual Notch Applications”, In the proceeding of International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials (ICAFM 2014), February 19-21, 2014:pp.67.

 C.Saiphalghun, Sheeba Rani J. “FPGA based Partial Reconfigurable FIR filter design ” Proceedings of IEEE conference IACC, February 2014.

 Nishank Kumar, Deepak Mishra, Sai Subrahmanya Gorthi . "Development of Fast and Accurate Stereo Vision System for Robotic Arm Application with Sub pixel Accuracy”, 8th International Conference on image processing, 2014.

 Vivekanand V., Vidya L., Shyam Kumar U., Deepak Mishra. “Radial Basis Function Cascade Network for Sparse Signal Recovery (RASR)”, NCC 2014.

 Venkatesh.S.S., Anil Kumar.A.K., Deepak Mishra, Ramarao Nidamanuri. “Motion Parameter Estimation from Consecutive Perspective Views of Rigid Planar Patch: Algorithm & Implementation Based on Pure Parameters and Singular Value Decomposition”, International Conference on Modeling, Optimization and Computing (ICMOC 2014).

 V Vivekanand, L Vidya, U.S Kumar, D Mishra. “ Noise immunity analysis of compressed sensing recovery algorithms”, IEEE International Conference On Signal Processing And Integrated Networks (SPIN), 2014.

 Gayathri P, Sheeba Rani J. “Fixed point pipelined architecture for QR decomposition”,

Annual Report 2013-14 1 31  Proceedings of the IEEE conference on International Conference on Advanced Communication,Control & Computing Technologies ICACCCT May 2014.

 Chitra K., Mishra Deepak, Brinda V., Lalithambika, V.R. Kumar, B. Manoj. “3D information retrieval for visual odometry system of planetary exploration rovers - A stereo vision approach”, IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), 2013.

 Vidya L. , Vivekananad V., ShyamKumar U., Mishra Deepak, Lakshminarayanan R. “ Feasibility study of applying compressed sensing recovery algorithms for launch vehicle telemetry”, IEEE Annual International Conference on Emerging Research Areas and International Conference on Microelectronics, Communications and Renewable Energy (AICERA/ICMiCR), 2013.

 N. Gaur, A. Chakraborty, B. S. Manoj. “Load-aware Routing for Non-Persistent Small- World Wireless Mesh Networks”, Proceedings of NCC 2014, February-March 2014.

 Rahul Sharma, Deepak Mishra, Haresh Bhatt. “A Novel Shot boundary detection in compressed videos using dual unsupervised clustering and H.264 tools”, IEEE CCIIS, 2013.

 Rajesh Joseph Abraham. “QFT based robust controller for DC-DC boost converter”, IEEE International Conference on Circuits, Controls and Communications, Chennai, December 27- 28, 2013.

 Rajesh Joseph Abraham. “Quantitative Feedback Theory based Robust Controller for a Roll stabilized Missile”, International Conference on Electrical Sciences, Thanjavur, August 9-10, 2013.

 Rajesh Joseph Abraham. “A Robust Controller design for a DC-DC Buck Converter using QFT”, International Conference on Intelligent and Efficient Electrical Systems, Coimbatore, December 12-14, 2013.

 Roshankumar P., Kaarthik S., GopakumarK., Rajeevan P. P., Leon J. I., FranqueloL. G. “A seventeen-level inverter with a single DC-link for motor drives”, Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE, November 10- 13, 2013.

 S. Srivastava, A. Sarkar, B. S. Manoj. “Hazard Control Algorithms for Heterogenous Multi- Agent Cloud-Enabled Robotic Network,” Proceedings of IEEE ANTS, December 2013.

 Sarkar, S. Srivastava, B. S. Manoj. “Elevation Mapping Using Stereo Vision Enabled Heterogenous Multi-Agent Robotic Network”, Proceedings of IEEE Global Humanitarian

32 Annual Report 2013-142  Sanjeev K Mishra, Jayanta Mukherjee. “Integrated Bluetooth and UWB antenna with WiMAX-WLAN Band-notched Characteristics”, Asia Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP- RASC'13), Taipei, Taiwan, September 3- 7, 2013.

 Avinash R Vaidya, Sanjeev K Mishra, Jayanta Mukherjee. “High-Gain Broad-Band Planar Antennas with Feed Patch Array and Partially Reflective Surfaces”, IEEE-19th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC 2013), Bali, Indonesia, pp. 709- 714, August 2013.

 Vinitha Ramdas, Deepak Mishra, Sai Subrahmanyam Gorthi. “Efficient Speech Coding Using A Hybride Dictionary In A Quantized CS Frame Work”, ICISP-2014.

 Waghmare Rahul G., Mishra Deepak, G. R.K., Sai Subrahmanyam. “UKF based multi- component phase estimation in digital holographic Moiré”, IEEE Fourth National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), 2013.

Department of Chemistry

 A.S. Rama Teja, Sarah Titus, R. Rakesh, K.G. Sreejalekshmi. “Hymecromone functionalized poly (4-vinylpyridine) and its photodeformation”, National Seminar on Recent Trends in Materials Science and Technology, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, July 10-12, 2013.

 J. Cyriac. ISMAS Young Scientist Award Lecture, 12th ISMAS Triennial International Conference on Mass Spectrometry,TRICON-2013, Goa, March 2013.

 J. Lavanya, S. Neogi, N. Gomathi. ”Comparitive study on electro catalytic activity of oxygen and nitrogen doped graphene for electrochemical cancer biosensor”, International Conference on Stem cells and cancer (ICSCC-2013) , International Centre for Stem Cells, Cancer and Biotechnology (ICSCCB), Pune, October 19-22, 2013.

 J. Lavanya, L.G. Nair, N. Gomathi, S. Neogi. “Electro catalytic activity of Plasma Functionalized Reduced Graphene Oxide”, Research Scholars day 2013, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram December 16-17, 2013

 J. Lavanya, L.G. Nair, N. Gomathi., S. Neogi. ”Study on RF plasma treated Reduced Graphene Oxide”, poster presented in Chemcon 2013, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers(IIChE), Mumbai , December 27-30, 2013.

 Anjali lal, J. Mary Gladis. “Synthesis of Bimetallic and trimetallic nanoparticles”, National Seminar on Emerging Trends in Chemical Sciences [ETCS-2013] ,Department of Chemistry, University of Kerala, Kariavattom , May 29-31, 2013.

 K. Jalaja, N.R. James. “Cationically modified gelatin nanofibers: A green nanofabrication method for biomedical applications”, Payyanur college, Payyanur, June 25, 2013.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 33  K. Jalaja, N.R. James. “A Facile Cross-Linking Approach Using Sucrose Based Material for Gelatin Nanofibers”, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, July 10-12, 2013.

 K. Jalaja, N.R. James. “Biocompatible electrospun gelatin nanofiber scaffold for tissue engineering application”, ICAPM-2013, MG University, Kottayam, October 11-13, 2013.

 K. Jalaja, N.R. James. “Fabrication of chitosan nanofibers using gelatin as a core template for coaxial electrospinning”, IUMRS_ICA 2013, IISc Bangalore, December 16-20, 2013.

 K. Jalaja, N. R. James. “Electrospunnanofibers based on cationized gelatin: A green nanofabrication method for biomedical applications”. 2nd International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials - ICAFM 2014, NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram, February 19-21, 2014.

 L. G. Nair, N. Gomathi, J. Lavanya. “Functionalization of multiwall carbon nanotubes by RF plasma treatment”, poster presented in National Conference on Recent Trends in Material Science & Technology held in IIST, Thiruvananthapuram July 10-12, 2013.  L.G. Nair, K. Joseph, C. P. Reghunadan Nair., S. Neogi., N. Gomathi. “Surface Modification

of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes by N2/O2 Plasma treatment”, Chemcon 2013, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers(IIChE), Mumbai, December 27-30, 2013.  M. Ganiga, A.K. Khatua, J. Cyriac. “Flexible Wiping Substrate for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Applications”, National Conference on Recent Trends in Materials Science and Technology 2013, IIST Thiruvananthapuram, July 10-12, 2013.  M.K. Mahitha, M. K. Kavitha, J. Honey. “Synthesis and Photocatalytic studies of TiO2 and

TiO2-Graphene composite”, NCMST, IIST, Thiruvanathapuram, July, 2013.

 M. K. Kavitha, P. Gopinath, J. Honey. “ Improved photocatalytic activity of Reduced Graphene oxide-ZnO hybrid”, IUMRS ICA, IISc Bangalore, December 16-20, 2013.

 M. M. Ali, K. Y. Sandhya. “Adsorption of 1-naphthol by reduced graphene oxide and the mechanism thereof”, Research Scholars day 2013, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram December 16- 17, 2013.

 P.R. Sarika, N.R. James. “Transparent pullulan aldehyde-gelatin films for corneal tissue engineering”, First International and Third National Conference on Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, Tirupati , June 28-29, 2013.

 P.R. Sarika, N.R. James. “Polysaccharide based nano materials for drug delivery applications”, National Conference on Recent Trends in Materials Science and Technology, IIST, Trivandrum, July 10-12, 2013.

 P.R. Sarika, N.R. James. “Polymer scaffolds for tissue culture under microgravity”, Amrita Bioquest 2013, International Conference for Biotechnology for Innovative applications, August 10-14, 2013.

34 Annual Report 2013-142  P. R. Sarika, N.R. James. “Design and development of gumarabic curcumin conjuate for cancer therapy”. Research Scholars day 2013, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram December 16-17, 2013.  R. Konnola, K. Joseph. “Cure Kinetics Studies on Carboxyl Terminated poly (acrylonitrile- co-butadiene)-POSS Composites Using Differential Scanning Colorimetry”, FAPS-MACRO 2013, IISc Bangalore, May 15-18, 2013.  R. Konnola., K.M Usha., K. Joseph. Oral presentation entitled“ Multi-scale composites- Challenges in processing and enhancement in mechanical properties”, International Conference on Safety by Design 2013 , JCET, Ottappalam, August 16-17,2013.  R. Konnola, K. Joseph. Oral presentation entitled “Kinetic Analysis of the Nonisothermal Decomposition of POSS-CTBN nanocomposite”, ICAPM 2013, MG UNIVERSITY, Kottayam, October 11-13, 2013.  R. Konnola, K.Joseph. Oral presentation entitled “Rheological studies on the curing of poly(acrylonitrile-co-butadiene)- POSS nanocomposite”, PPS Asia/Australia Conference (PPS2013), IIT Bombay, December 4-7, 2013.  R. Konnola, K. Joseph. “Effect of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane on the Surface Morphology, Fracture Toughness, Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Nanoclay/Epoxy Nanocomposites”, ICAFM 2014, NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram, February 19-21, 2014.  R. Narasimman, S. Vijayan., K. Prabhakaran. “Activated carbon particles stabilized molten sucrose foam and preparation of carbon foam”, National Conference on Materials Science and Technology (NCMST-2013), IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, July 10-12, 2013.  R. Narasimman, S. Vijayan, K. Prabhakaran. “Particle Size Effect On The Foaming Characteristics Of Activated Carbon Dispersions In Aqueous Sucrose Resin And Properties Of The Resultant Carbon Foams”, Carbon 2013, J Rio de Janerio, Brazil, July 14-19, 2013.  R. Narasimman, S. Vijayan, K. Prabhakaran. “Macrocellular Carbon Foam for CO2 Adsorption”, IUMRS-ICA, IISc, Bangalore, December 16-20, 2013.  R. Rakesh, S. Titus, K.G. Sreejalekshmi. “Electronic structures and spectroscopic properties of benzopyranone derivatives: A DFT study”, Research Scholars day 2013, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram December 16-17, 2013  S. Mahesh, D. Raju, C.L. Lakshmi, K.D. Renuka, K. Joseph, ''Light Induced Transformation of Soft Nanostructures'', In the proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials (ICAFM), February 19-21 , 2014.  S. Titus, K.G. Sreejalekshmi. ''Structure based docking assisted identification of 4- benzylidenehydrazinothiazoles as novel aurora kinase inhibitors” Recent Advances in Computational Drug Design (RACDD-2013), IISc Bangalore, September 16-17, 2013.  S. Titus, K.G. Sreejalekshmi. “Computational approach towards the development of densely functionalized thiazoles as novel anticancer agents”, 4th International conference on stem cells and cancer, Haffkines Institute, Mumbai, October 19-22, 2013.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 35  S. Titus, K.G. Sreejalekshmi. “Synthesis and solvatochromism of coumarin conjugated PAMAM: in search for a novel imaging probe”, Research Scholars day 2013, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram December 16-17, 2013  S. Titus, K.G. Sreejalekshmi. “Synthesis and single crystal X-ray studies on aminothiazole monohydrate, a structural analogue to dasatinib”, International Conference on Materials and Characterization Techniques (ICMCT-2014), VIT Z University, Vellore, March 10- 12, 2014.  S. Vijayan, R. Narasimman, K. Prabhakaran. “Preparation of alumina foams by thermo- foaming molten sucrose-alumina powder dispersions”, National Conference on Material Science and Technology, NCMST-2013, IIST, Thiruvanathapuram, July 10-12 , 2013.  T. Remyamol, J. Honey, P. Gopinath. “Polyaniline grafted reduced graphene oxide as optical limiter”, NCMST, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, July 10-12, 2013.  T. Remyamol, J. Honey, P. Gopinath. “Phenylene diamine mediated covalent grafting of polyaniline on reduced graphene oxide for optical limiting”. ICANMEET, Sathyabhama University, Chennai, July 24-26, 2013.  T. Remyamol, J. Honey, P. Gopinath. “Nonlinear optical and optoelectronic applications of polyaniline-reduced graphene oxide hybrid”.,MRSI Annual Technical Meeting VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram, November 27, 2013.  V. Kumar., K.S.S. Kumar, K.Y. Sandhya, C.P. Reghunadhan Nair. “Silane and Urethane

Chemistry to Access Superhydrophobicity in CaCO3 Nanoparticles”, FAPS-MACRO, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, May 15-18, 2013.  Department of Earth and Space Sciences  Arun Prasad, L. Gnanappazham. “Spectral distance as an approach for species level discrimination of Mangroves”, International conference on 'Geospatial Momentum for Society and Environment' , Ahmedabad, December 16 19, 2013. (Received BEST PAPER Award for the Technical Session : Remote sensing and Image Processing)  Arun Prasad, L. Gnanappazham. “Spectral Seperability among mangrove species of Rhizophoraceae family using field spectroscopy”, IEEE International Symposium on Ocean Electronics, SYMPOL 2013, CUSAT, Cochin, October 23 25, 2013.  A Chandrasekar, M Dhanya. “3DVAR assimilation of SAPHIR radiance from Megha- Tropiques: Case Study of a heavy rainfall over southern Indian Peninsula” , SAARC Seminar on High Impact Weather Events and their prediction over SAARC Region, New Delhi, December 2, 2013.  S. Mandal, R. Kumar, I. Chattopadhyay. “ Recent Trends in the Study of Compact Objects: Theory and Observation”, ASI Conference Series, 2013, 8, 4550  R. Kumar, I. Chattopadhyay, S. Mandal. “ Recent Trends in the Study of Compact Objects: Theory and Observation”, ASI Conference Series, 2013, 8, 147150 stem cells and cancer, Haffkines Institute, Mumbai, October 19-22, 2013..

36 Annual Report 2013-142 Department of Humanities  Shaijumon C. S. (2014). “Changing Indo-US Economic Relations: Prospects and Challenges after Global Financial Crisis”, In the National Seminar on Asian Re-balancing and the Changing Dimensions of Indo-US Relations, , Department of Political Science, University of Kerala, January 9-10, 2014.  Shaijumon C. S. (2014). “Autonomy a Key to Academic Success: Experiences of IIST”, National Seminar on New Trends in Higher Education, University College, Kerala University, March 27- 28, 2014.  Department of Mathematics  Anilkumar C.V., Suja Eapen. “A comparative study of chaotic behavior of Total Electron Content at low, mid and high latitude stations”, AGU Chapman International Conference on causes and consequences of the Extended Solar Minimum between Solar Cyclesat Key Largo, Florida, USA., 8-12 April 2013.  N. Natarajan. “On the Superconvergence of h-p finite element method for parabolic equation”, National Conference on Recent advances in Numerical methods and its applications, 27-29 January, 2014: pp 15-17.  K. Mukherjee, S. Natesan, An efficient hybrid numerical scheme for singularly perturbed problems of mixed parabolic elliptic type. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2013, 411-419.  K.S.S.Moosath, “Banach-Tarski Paradfox - Measure theoretic implications”, National Seminar on Analysis at KKTM, Kodungallur, November 19-20, 2013.  K. S. S.Moosath, “Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems and certain Applications”, National Seminar on Mathematical Analysis and its applications, March 13-15, 2014.  Raju K. George , Bhaskar Dubey, “Controllability of Linear Time-invariant Dynamical Systems with Fuzzy Initial Condition”, ICMSC-2013, UC-Berkeley, San-Francisco, U.S.A in October 2013.  Sarvesh Kumar, “Finite volume approximations for incompressible miscible displacement problems in porous media with modified method of characteristics'', LNCS, 2013, pp.379-386.  Sarvesh Kumar, “Discontinuous Galerkin finite volume element methods and its application to miscible displacement problems”, SCTEMM-2013, Russia, July 08-11, 2013.  Department of Physics  Haripadmam P. C., Honey John, Pramod Gopinath. “Effect of fabrication technique on optical limiting property of Polystyrene-ZnO nanotop composite films”, 31st Young Physicists' Colloquium, August 22-23, 2013.  Haripadmam P.C., Honey John, Pramod Gopinath. “Enhanced optical limiting in ZnO nanotop-CNT-PMMA composite films”, In Proceedings of the 23rd Swadeshi Science Congress, November 6-8, 2013.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 37  Haripadmam P. C., Honey John, Pramod Gopinath. “Improvement in Optical Limiting Properties of PMMA-ZnO nanocomposites films prepared using oleic acid as a dispersing agent”, In the proceedings of IIST Research Scholars' Day, December 16 --17, 2013.  Haripadmam P.C., Honey John, Pramod Gopinath. “Improvement in Optical Limiting Properties of PMMA-ZnO nanocomposites films prepared using triton as a dispersing agent”, In the proceedings of DAE-BRNS National Laser Symposium-22, January 8-11, 2014: CP-06- 60.  Jyothish M., Rakesh Kumar Singh. “Sampling distance requirements of discrete LCT”, International Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics (ICOL) Dehradun, March 5-8, 2014.  Kavitha M. K., Pramod Gopinath., Honey John. “Improved photocatalytic activity of Reduced Graphene oxide-ZnO hybrid”, IUMRS ICA, IISc Bangalore, December 16-20, 2013: pp. 20.  Mishra P. M., Rajput J., Safvan C. P., Vig S., Kadhane U. (2013). “Exploring Plasmon excitation in PAHs as a consequence of proton collision”, Topical conference on atomic processes in plasmas. IPR, Gandhinagar, November 18-20, 2013.  Mishra P. M., Kadhane U. (2014). “Coupling of Plasmon excitation in collision of proton and photon with PAHs, Modelling ion-PAH collision using Monte Carlo simulation”, Stored particle atomic physics research collaboration. TIFR, Mumbai, January 28-29, 2014.  Rakesh Kumar Singh, Dinesh N. Naik., Hitoshi Itou., Maruthi M. Brundavanam., Yoko Miyamoto., Mitsuo Takeda. “Relation between vectorial source structure and coherence- polarization of light”, Proc. SPIE 87880 (2013) 87880, Munich, Germany, May 13-16, 2013.  Brijesh Kumar Singh, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Mehta B. S., Senthilkumaran, P. “ Control generation of periodic polarization structure by interference”, Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics(WRAP) Delhi, December 17-18, 2013.  Brijesh Kumar Singh, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Mehta, B. S., Senthilkumaran, P. “Polarization modulation in speckles”, International Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics (ICOL) Dehradun, March 5-8, 2014.  Rakesh Kumar Singh, Vinu R.V., Anandraj Sharma M. “Holographic method for viewing the object through scatterer”, International Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics (ICOL) Dehradun, March 5-8, 2014.  Remyamol T., Pramod Gopinath, Honey John. “Polyaniline grafted reduced graphene oxide as optical limiter”, In the proceedings of the National Conference on Materials Science and Technology NCMST 2013, July 10-12, 2013 pp. 45.  Remyamol T, Pramod Gopinath, Honey John. “Phenylene diamine mediated covalent grafting of polyaniline on reduced graphene oxide for optical limiting”, In IEEE conference proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Emerging Engineering Technologies 2013, July 24-26, 2013: pp. 204-207.

38 Annual Report 2013-142  Remyamol T, Pramod Gopinath, Honey John. “Synthesis, characterization, and improved photocurrent generation of polyaniline-phenylene diamine functionalized reduced graphene oxide hybrid”, IIST Research Scholars Day-2013, December 16-17, 2013.  Sai Krishna, Vinu R.V., Anandraj Sharma M., Rakesh Kumar Singh. “Influence of polarized source structures on statistical properties of laser speckle”, International Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics (ICOL) Dehradun, March 5-8, 2014.  Srinivasa Raju M., Rajesh K Singh., Pramod Gopinath., Ajai Kumar. “Effect of Magnetic Field at Different Pressures on the Laser Produced Barium Plasma”, In the proceedings of ISAMP-TC2013 on “Atomic Processes in Plasmas”, November 18-20, 2013.  Vinu R.V., Manoj K. Sharma, Rakesh Kumar Singh, P. Senthilkumaran. “Evaluation of Dammann grating using polarization interferometer”, Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP) Delhi, December 17-18, 2013.  Vinu R.V., Manoj K. Sharma, Rakesh Kumar Singh, P. Senthilkumaran. “Generation of off- axis intensity maximum in transverse spatial correlation”, International Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics (ICOL) Dehradun, March 5-8, 2014.

III) BOOKS / BOOK CHAPTERS

 Vipparthi Adimurthy, Ramanan R.V., Pankaj Priyadarshi, (2103) "Optimization in Aero Space Dynamics", ISBN No. 978-81-908956-5-1, ISRO, Bangalore, India.  N.Selvaganesan. (2013) “Fuzzy Based Modeling, Control and Fault Diagnosis of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator” in Handbook of Research on Computational Intelligence for Engineering, Science and Business, Vol.1 pp. 487-520 (IGI Global): USA.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 39  Rajesh Joseph Abraham, “A Genetic Proportional Integral Derivative controlled Hydrothermal Automatic Generation Control with Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage” in Intelligent Solutions for Electricity Transmission and Distribution Networks, Springer.  V. Seena, P.Ray, P. Kovur, M.Kandpal, V. R. Rao. Chapter titled “Polymer MEMS Sensors” in “Advanced Biomaterials and Biodevices”, pp.305-342. ISBN 978-1-118-77363-5. (WILEY- Scrivener Publishing): USA.  P. Ray, V. Seena, V.R.Rao, Chapter titled ”Polymer cantilevers and novel transduction techniques for nano electromechanical sensing”, in “Nanocantilever beams: modeling, fabrication, and applications”, Pan Stanford Publishing (In Press), ISBN - 13: 9789814613231  Sabu Thomas, K. Joseph, S.K. Malhotra., Koichi Goda., M.S. Sreekala Eds. (2013). "Advances in Polymer Composites-Volume II - Nano Composites", (John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)  Sabu Thomas, K. Joseph, S.K. Malhotra., Koichi Goda., M.S Sreekala Eds. (2013). "Advances in Polymer Composites,”-Volume I  N. Gomathi, A.K Chanda, S. Neogi, (2013) “Atmospheric Plasma Treatment of Polymers for Biomedical Applications” in Atmospheric Plasma Treatment of Polymers: Relevance to Adhesion, M.Thomas and K.L .Mittal. Eds., Scrivener Publishing LLC., pp.199-215.  Chandrasekar A., M. Govindankutty, 2013. “Studies on the impacts of 3DVAR assimilation of satellite observations on the simulation of monsoon depressions over India“,in Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrologic Applications (Vol. II), Seon Ki Park and Liang Xu. Eds., Springer; ISBN 978-3-642-35087-0, pp 643-705.  Gigy J Alex, (2013). “Eluding Identity : Shifting Paradigms of culture and identity in Parzania and 1947 : Earth”, In Alternative Voices : Re(searching ) Language, Culture, Identity...(edited by Hasnain Imtiaz, Sangeeta Bagg Gupta and Shailendra Mohan), pp. 112-119, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing New Castle Upon Tyne): UK .  Shaijumon C. S. (2013). Trends in Indian Economy, In Mathrubhumi Year Book Plus 2014 (edited by Chandran P V), pp. 625-686, (Mathrubhumi Printing and Publication): Kozhikode.  Shaijumon C. S. (2014). “Role of Village Resource Centers in Technology Diffusion and Development”, In Technologies for Sustainable Development: A way to reduce poverty? (edited by Jean-Claude Bolay et. al), pp. 287-297, (Springer International Publishing): Switzerland.

 Shaijumon C. S.(2014). “Indo-US Trade Relations”, In South Asia in the Globalised World (edited by C Vinodan), pp. 118-132, (New Century Publications): New Delhi.  Shaijumon C. S. (2014). “Space based services for educational outreach : A case of ISRO Village Resource Centres”, In Higher Education in India New Perspectives (edited by Jacob Chacko), pp. 94-113, (Manak Publications): New Delhi.  N.Sabu (2013),“Lecture notes in Optimization”, Published by IIST.  E. Natarajan (2013), “Lecture Notes in Partial Differential Equations”, IIST Lecture Notes Series-2, Published by IIST.

40 Annual Report 2013-142 CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOPS AT IIST IIST hosted number of conferences/workshops and special lectures to promote interaction with the research community in India and abroad.

Department of Chemistry  National Conference on Recent Trends in Material Science and Technology, 10-12 July, 2013.  Two-day workshop on Computational Drug Discovery and Hands-on training on Materials Science Suite (Schrodinger Suite 2013) was conducted in the Department of Chemistry during 25-26th February, 2014.

Department of Earth and Space Sciences  GIS training Programme IIST - ESRI NIIT India 2013 : August 11 – 13, 2013 & November 9, 2013  One day workshop on Compressive sensing (ESS and Avionics): January 22, 2014

Department of Humanities  Humour: Texts/ Contexts , December 7-8, 2013  National Workshop on Social Science Research Methodology, June 20-22, 2013.  Two day Workshop on Project Management October 20-21, 2013.

Department of Mathematics  Workshop organized: ATM Workshop on "Computational Algebraic Geometry", February 9- 13, 2014.  Workshop on “Differential Equations and its Applications (WDEAP 2013)” from December 18 – 21, 2013.  Advanced Workshop on Homogenization from December 9–14, 2013

Annual Report 2013-14 1 41 INVITED LECTURES During this period, IIST organized lectures by various academicians from India and abroad.

 Christophe Chatelain, Institut Jean Lamour, Universite de Lorraine, France, April 9, 2013, “The influence of disorder on the phase transition of the Potts model.”  Hari B Hablani, IIT Mumbai, May 14, 2013, “Experiences in Navigation design.”  A. K. Nandakumaran, IISc Bangalore, May 19, 2013, “Fundamental theorem of calculus, Why is it so fundamental ?”  Chacko Jacob, IIT, Kharagpur, June 6, 2013, “ Synthesis of multiwall carbon nanotubes by Chemical vapour Deposition Does the catalyst matter?”  Pankaj Biswas, BITS, Pilani, June 7, 2013, "Numerical solutions to non-algebraic equations”  Thirupathi Gudi , IISc Bangalore, June 9, 2013, “Adaptive finite element methods for obstacle problem.”  Krishana Dev Kumar, Professor & Canada Research Chair in Space Systems, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Ryerson University, June 21, 2013, “Spacecraft Design, Dynamics and Control: Ongoing Research and Future Challenges.”  C. Amarnath, IIT Bombay, July 5, 2013, “Exploration and Research.”  S Sivaram, NCL,Pune, July 10-12, 2013, “Sustainable materials based on aliphatic polyesters: teaching old chemistry some new tricks.”  Vijayamohanan Pillai, Director, CECRI, Karaikudi, July 10-12, 2013, “Transformation of carbon nanotubes to graphene quantum dots: Size dependant optical and electron transfer properties.”  Ajith P., International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR Bangalore, September 25, 2013 “Gravitational-wave astronomy: A new observational window to the Universe.”  Sampath Srinivasan, IISc, Bangalore, September 25, 2013, “Interfacial Studies Using Transition Metal Nitrides and Carbides.” 42 Annual Report 2013-142  Kannan N Iyer, IIT Bombay, October 18, 2013, “Methodology for Hydrogen Management in Nuclear Reactor Containment.”  Bindusar Sahoo, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, October 23, 2013 “Nobel Prize in Physics 2013.”  Thomas Tharian, MME, LPSC, October 24, 2013, 'The science of Titanium alloys.'  Bhoje Gowd, Senior Scientist, NIIST Thiruvananthapuram, November 1, 2013, “X-ray techniques for Material Characterization.”  B. Santhosh, Head, Structures design section, Composites entity, VSSC, November 13, 2013, “ Rockets and Satellites: A Structural Engineering Perspective.”  Anoop K Mukhopadhyay, Chief Scientist, Central Glass and Ceramic Institute, Kolkata, November 13, 2013, “Nano Indentation and emerging technique for Material Characterization.”  K .V. Gangadharan, NIT K, November 26, 2013, “Demonstration of Virtual lab developed.”  Deshdeep Sahdev, IIT Kanpur, December 5, 2013 "Indigenous technology in a globalized world: A case study."  R. Shankar, BHU, Varanasi, December 9, 2014 “Spectroscopy of multiply charged molecular ions induced by keV-electrons and studied by ion-ion coincidence technique."

 Rajeev , ISI Bangalore, December 20, 2013, "Brownian Excursions."

 K. Kapoor, BITS, Hyderabad, January 10, 2014 “Recent developments in quantum Hamilton Jacobi method."

 Govindan Rangarajan, IISc Bangalore, January 24, 2014, "Brain Machine Interface"

 Gangan Prathap, CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram, February 5, 2014, “Prathap's paradigm and prathap Points.”  Kota Murali, Semiconductor Research Centre, IBM-India, February 12,2014 "Nanotechnology - Enabling the future."  Muhamed Suceska, Scientific Advisor, Brodarski Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, February 12, 2014, “Computational Modeling of Thermal Ignition of Energetic Materials.”  T.N. Krishnamurti, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA, February 21, 2014 “A Monsoonal link to the rapid Arctic ice melt.”  Guido Kanschat , Interdiscplinary centre for Scientific Computing, Universitat Heidelberg, March 7,2014, “ Scientific Software in Research and Education.”  C.S Kundu, IIT ,Kharagpur, March 14, 2014, “Silk protein matrices for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.”  Shyjumon Ibrahimkutty, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, March 17, 2014 “Synchrotron Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) analysis on Nanosystems.”

Annual Report 2013-14 1 43 FACULTY AND STAFF ACTIVITIES During 2013-14, twelve regular faculty members and one visiting faculty member joined and at present, institute is having 96 faculty members.

IIST faculty members made significant contributions in the areas of teaching and research. They won several awards and honours.

AWARDS / RECOGNITIONS

 Seena.V - Award for Excellence in Ph.D Thesis, IIT Bombay received during 51st Convocation of IIT Bombay August 10, 2013.  Seena.V - SERB Women Excellence Award, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, Govt. of India.  V.S. Sooraj and Prof. V. Radhakrishnan, “Multi-Application Studies of Elastomeric Abrasive Balls in Fine Finishing”, Best paper award in IIST Research Scholars Day, 2013  S. Titus, K.G., Sreejalekshmi. ''Structure based docking assisted identification of 4- benzylidenehydrazinothiazoles as novel aurora kinase inhibitors” Best poster award in Recent Advances in Computational Drug Design (RACDD-2013), IISc Bangalore, September 16-17, 2013  S. Titus, K.G. Sreejalekshmi. “Computational approach towards the development of densely functionalized thiazoles as novel anticancer agents”, Best poster award in 4th International conference on stem cells and cancer, Haffkines Institute, Mumbai, October 19-22, 2013.  V. Kumar, K.S.S. Kumar, K.Y. Sandhya, C.P. Reghunadhan Nair. “Silane and Urethane

Chemistry to Access Superhydrophobicity in CaCO3 Nanoparticles”, Best poster award in FAPS- MACRO, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, May 15-18, 2013.  Arun Prasad, L. Gnanappazham, “Spectral distance as an approach for species level discrimination of Mangroves”, Best paper award in International conference on 'Geospatial Momentum for Society and Environment' , Ahmedabad, December 16 - 19, 2013.

44 Annual Report 2013-142 CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP ATTENDED BY FACULTY MEMBERS

 Pradeep Kumar P., International Workshop on Design of Sub-Systems for Concentrated Solar Power Technologies, IIT-Jodhpur, December 19-22, 2013.

 Prathap C., Pan Indian Combustion Academics Colloquium, IIT, Madras, March 17-18, 2014.

 Praveen Krishna, International Conference on Energy and Environment 2013, RIT, Kottayam, December 13, 2013.

 Shine S. R, 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Kharagpur.

 Shine S. R., ASME 2013 Gas Turbine India Conference, GTIndia2013, Bangalore, December 5- 6, 2013.

 Ramanan R. V., 6th symposium on Applied Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace Vehicles , SAROD 2013, November 21-23, 2013.

 Chakravarthy P., National Metallurgist Day, IIT BHU, Varanasi, November 12-15, 2013.

 Chakravarthy P., National Aerospace Manufacturing Seminar, November 22-23, 2013.

 Chakravarthy P., 3rd international conference on advances in materials and manufacturing, Chitkatra university, Punjab, September 2013

 Chakravarthy P., International seminar on metal forming, IMTEX Bangalore, January 2014.

 Pankaj Priyadarshi, IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence: Theories, Applications and Future Directions, IIT Kanpur, July 14, 2013.

 Pankaj Priyadarshi, National Conference on Wind Tunnel Testing (NCWT-03), Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, August 23-24, 2013.

 Pankaj Priyadarshi, Workshop on Hypersonic Aerodynamics, Hyderabad, November 21, 2013.

 Pankaj Priyadarshi, 6th Symposium on Applied Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace Vehicles, Hyderabad, November 22-23, 2013.

 Pankaj Priyadarshi, 22nd National and 11th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT, Kharagpur, December 28-31, 2013.

  Pankaj Priyadarshi, International Workshop on Novel Combustion Concepts for Sustainable Energy Development, January 2-4, 2014.

 Sooraj V.S., National Aerospace Manufacturing Seminar, SAME, Trivandrum November 22-23, 2013.

 V. S. Sooraj, International Conference on Precision Meso Micro Nano Engineering (COPEN), December 2013.

 Sooraj V.S., International seminar on metal forming, IMTEX Bangalore, January 2014.

 B. S. Manoj , IEEE Indicon 2013, IIT Mumbai, December 13-15, 2013.

 B. S. Manoj, IEEE RAICS 2013, Trivandrum, December 19-21, 2013.

nd  B. S. Manoj, 2 International conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics 2013 (ICACCI 2013), Mysore, August 22-25, 2013.

 Annual Report 2013-14 1 45  Chinmoy Saha, International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials (ICAFM 2014), CSIR National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, February 19-21, 2014.

 Chinmoy Saha, URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (URSI- RCRS 2014) ,Indian National Committee for URSI (INC-URSI), INSA and Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune, January 2-5, 2014.

 Chinmoy Saha, IEEE International Conference on Applied Electromagnetics (AEMC 2013), IEEE AP-MTT Kolkata chapter, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, December 18-20, 2013.

nd  Deepak Mishra, 2 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics 2013 (ICACCI 2013), Mysore, August 22-25, 2013.

 M.Vanidevi, Workshop on Digital Wireless, National Instruments, Jodhpur, February 23- 24, 2014.

 Sanjeev K Mishra. Jayanta Mukherjee, Integrated Bluetooth and UWB antenna with WiMAX- WLAN Band-notched Characteristics, 2013 Asia Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP- RASC'13), Taipei, Taiwan, September 3-7, 2013.

 Gomathy N., National Conference on Recent Trends in Material Science and Technology (NCMST), Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology, Trivandrum, July 10-12, 2013.

 Gomathy N., Chemcon 2013, organized by Indian institute of Chemical Engineers(IIChE), Mumbai, December, 27-30, 2013.

 J. Mary Gladis, “Nano India-2013” conference organized by CSIR- National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram , February 19-20, 2013.

 J. Mary Gladis, National conference on recent trends in Material Science and Technology (NCMST-2013), organised by Department of Chemistry, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, July 10-12, 2013.

 K.G. Sreejalekshmi, Two-day workshop on Computational Drug Discovery and Hands-on training on Materials Science Suite (Schrodinger GmBH), Department of Chemistry during February 25-26, 2014.

th  K. Joseph, Expert member for the 26 Kerala Science Congress-2014, Veterinary and Agricultural Science University, Pookode, Kalpetta, January 30 , 2014.

th  K. Joseph, 9 International High Energy Materials Conference and Exhibits '(HEMCE-2014)' Trivandrum, February 13-15 , 2014.

 K. Joseph, International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials(ICAFM-2014),Mascot Hotel, Trivandrum, February 19-21 ,2014.

 K. Joseph, Workshop on High Temperature Materials and Hot Structures, Uday Samudra Leisure Beach Hotel, Kovalam, Trivandrum.

th  S. Mahesh, 16 CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (NSC-16), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, February 7- 9 ,2014.

 K.Y. Sandhya, National Conference on Recent Trends in Materials Science & Technology (NCMST), a three day event conducted by Chemistry Dept., Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology Trivandrum, July 10-12, 2013. 46 Annual Report 2013-142  Samir Mandal, Conference on Accretion Onto Black Holes organized by TIFR, Mumbai at International Centre, Goa, September 5-7, 2013.

 Resmi, L., Science with SKA, IISER Mohali, March 19, 2014

nd  Resmi L., 32 Annual Conference of the Astronomical Society of India, IISER Mohali, March 20 -22, 2014.

 Deepak. T.G., Instructional Workshop on Matrix Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, January 6- 7, 2014.

 Deepak. T.G., Eighth International Conference on Matrix Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, January 8-10, 2014.

 E. Natarajan, CIMPA Research School on Current Trends in Computational methods for PDES, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 8-19, 2013.

 K. Mukherjee, International pre-school and CIMPA research school on “Current Trends in Computational Methods for PDEs”, held in the Department of Mathematics , IISc Bangalore ,June 24 July 7 and July 8-19, 2013.

 K. Mukherjee, the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Applied Mathematics, held in the Department of Applied Mathematics at University of Calcutta ,February 12 - 14, 2014.

 K.S.S.Moosath, IISc Mathematics Initiative workshop on Differential Equations, Government College, Chittur, May 15-21, 2013.

 K.S.S.Moosath, National Conference on Differential Geometry by the Government College, Chalakudy, October 22-23, 2013.

 K.S.S.Moosath, Linear Algebra and Applications, Government Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram, October 31 - November 2 ,2013.

 K.S.S.Moosath, National Seminar conducted by Department of Mathematics, K.K.T.M College, Kodungallur, November 19-20, 2013.

 K. Sakthivel, National Conference on Partial Differential Equations and Applications, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, January 30-31, 2014.

 Raju K. George, Indo-French centre for Applied Mathematics meeting Bangalore, April 26, 2013.

 Raju K. George, Workshop on “IISc Mathematics Initiative Workshop on Differential Equations” at Chittur , May 17 - 18 , 2013.

 Raju K. George, Lecture on Octave and Machine Learning , May 25, 2013.

 Raju K. George, Conference / Talk on Mathematical Modelling of Artificial Satellite at Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum, September 6, 2013.

 Raju K. George, Young Talent Nurture (YTN-2013) Program, May 28 -June 7, 2013.

 Raju K. George, NPDE Workshop on ODE ,Bhimtal , June 10-15, 2013.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 47  Raju K. George, Kashmir University Conference on Functional Analysis , October 28 - 29, 2013.

 Raju K. George, Modelling Week , NIT Calicut, November 2- 6, 2013.

 Raju K. George, ODE Workshop ,IIST, Trivandrum, December 18-29, 2013 .

 Sarvesh Kumar, The second international Conference on “Supercomputer Technologies of Mathematical Modeling", Yakutsk, Russia, July 8-11, 2013.

 Sarvesh Kumar, International pre-school and CIMPA research school on “Current Trends in Computational Methods for PDEs”, held in the Department of Mathematics , IISc Bangalore during June 24 July 7 and July 8-19, 2013.

 Sarvesh Kumar, International conference on “Emerging trends in applied Mathematics , University of Calcutta, Kolkata, February 12-14, 2014.

 Sarvesh Kumar, International conference on Mathematics and Engineering Sciences, Chitkara University, HP, India, March 20-22, 2014.

 Apoorva Nagar, Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting 2014, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, February 1-3, 2014.

 J Solomon Ivan, AQIS-2013 held at IMSc Chennai, August 25-30, 2013.

 Kadhane U., 1st VAMDC India meeting at IPR, Ahmadabad, November, 2013.

 Kadhane U., Stored particle atomic physics research collaboration. TIFR, Mumbai, January 28-29, 2014.

 Naveen Surendran, Workshop on Transport in Topological Insulators, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, July 9-13, 2013.

 Pramod Gopinath, National Colloquium on Theoretical Physics, Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute for Basic Sciences, Mascot Hotel, Thiruvananthapuram, August 9-11, 2013.

rd  Pramod Gopinath, 23 Swadeshi Science Congress, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, November 6-8, 2013.

 Pramod Gopinath, DAE-BRNS National Laser Symposium-22, Manipal University, Manipal, January 8-11, 2014.

 Pramod Gopinath, Annual Photonics Workshop on Nanophotonics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, February 27-28, 2014.

 Rakesh Kumar Singh, Structural and Physical Properties of Solids, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, November 18-20, 2013.

 Rakesh Kumar Singh, Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), Delhi, December 17-18, 2013.

 Rakesh Kumar Singh, International Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics (ICOL), Dehradun, March 5-8, 2014.

48 Annual Report 2013-142 INVITED LECTURES DELIVERED BY IIST FACULTY

Faculty Members of IIST gave invited lectures at various conferences / workshops in India and abroad.

 Ramanan R.V., 'Interplanetary Mission Challenges and Opportunities', 6th symposium on Applied Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace Vehicles , SAROD 2013, Hyderabad, November 21-23, 2013,

 Ramanan R.V., “Interplanetary Mission Challenges and Opportunities' Structured Training Programme,STP2013, ISRO Inertial Systems Unit, December 6, 2013.

 Pankaj Priyadarshi, “Role of Aerothermodynamic Fidelity on the Design of Axisymmetric Semi-Ballistic Re-entry Vehicles ,” Workshop on Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics , SAROD- 2013, Hyderabad, November 21, 2013

 Pankaj Priyadarshi, “CFD in Aerospace Vehicle Design @ ISRO,” Symposium on Applied Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace Vehicles (SAROD-2013), Hyderabad, November 22, 2013.

 Pankaj Priyadarshi, “Genetic Algorithms,” CEP Course on “Introduction to Optimization for Engineering Design”, Alleppey, Kerala, December 6, 2013.

 Pankaj Priyadarshi, “Elite Attractor GA (EA-GA) , a New Multi Objective GA Variant,” 9th Meeting of Special Interest Group on MDO , , Alleppey, Kerala, December 7, 2013.

 Pradeep Kumar P., Two Lectures “Elements of Two-phase flow” and “Direct steam generation” in the MNRE-sponsored short-term course Design of Concentrated Solar Thermal Systems, at IIT, Jodhpur, December 16 - 18, 2013.

 Prathap C., “Determination of Burning velocity”, IIT, Madras, NCCRD, February 10, 2014.

 Prathap C., “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering”, National level Technical Symposium, Podhigai College of Engineering and Technology, Tirupattur, March 15, 2014.

 Praveen Krishna I.R., “Introduction to vibration and control of vibrations”, QIP short term course on Modern Control Perspectives in Solid and Fluid Mechanics, IIT Madras, Chennai , January 19, 2014.

 Praveen Krishna I. R., “Wind Milling in Aero-engines”, National Workshop on “Space Craft and Launch Vehicle Technology, M. A. College, Kothamangalam, Kerala, February 22, 2014.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 49  B. S. Manoj, “Cognitive Networking” at the DRDO sponsored Three-day Workshop on Software Defined Radio, Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Kochi, May 14-16, 2013.

 B. S. Manoj, Keynote Talk titled “Securing Cyber Physical Systems”, Summer School on Network and Information Security '13 (NIS'13), IIITM-K, Trivandrum, May 20, 2013.

 B. S. Manoj, Keynote/Plenary talk 2nd International conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics 2013 (ICACCI 2013), Mysore, August 22-25, 2013.

 B. S. Manoj, Technical Program Committee Chairs' message at IEEE RAICS 2013 Trivandrum, December 19-21, 2013.

 Chinmoy Saha, “Metamaterial Inspired Antennas:Recent Trends and Developments ”,IEEE Indian Antenna Week 2013' Aurangabad, Maharashtra, June 3-7, 2013.

 Chinmoy Saha, “Metamaterial Inspired Antennas”, TEQUIP Sponsored Faculty Development Seminar, JIS College of Engg. Kalyani, August 14, 2013.

 Chinmoy Saha, “Compact Multiple SRR Loaded UWB Circular Monopole Antenna with Controllable Dual Frequency Notch Characteristics”, ”URSI RCRS 2014' Symbiosis, Institute of Technology, Pune, January 2-5, 2014.

 Deepak Mishra, “Image processing, Image storage, compression, and retrieval” at TEQIP course on "Image Processing" at College of Engineering, Attingal, June 3-9, 2013.

 Deepak Mishra, “Basics of Image Processing analysis” at NIT Calicut for faculty Development Program on Image Computing and Applications, June 11-15, 2013.

 Deepak Mishra, “Recurrent Neural Networks and its application”, FDP on Soft Computing Techniques in Engineering Applications, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, T.K.M College of Engineering, Kollam, June 21, 2013.

 Deepak Mishra, “Sparse signal Processing and compressed sensing” at computer science Department, Kerala University , June 26, 2013.

 Deepak Mishra, “An introduction to intelligent control: emphasis on Dynamic Neural Networks”, National level seminar on “Advanced Control Techniques for Innovative Applications” at VIT Chennai, December 5, 2013.

 Deepak Mishra, “Fuzzy sets and Fuzzy Logic theory and applications”, workshop on Softcomputing Department of Computer Science and Engineering Government Engineering College Sreekrishanapuram Palakkad, January 9-11, 2014.

 Deepak Mishra, “Neural Networks using MATLAB”, Department of ECE, T.K.M College of Engineering, Kollam, March 5,2014

50 Annual Report 2013-142  Sheeba Rani J., “Challenges of Face Recognition”, IEEE Student Branch Kalasalingam University, Krishnankovil, Tamil Nadu, April 11, 2013.

 Sheeba Rani J., “Discrete Transforms and its application to Image Processing”, NIT Calicut for faculty Development Program on Image Computing and Applications, June 11-15, 2013.

 Sheeba Rani J., “ VLSI Signal Processing” at LBS Institute of Technology for Women, Trivandrum for training program on VLSI for faculties in Engineering Colleges , (under TEQIP -II), September 2-6, 2013. .

 Sheeba Rani., “Virtual Reality and its applications” in the National Conference INCOS '14, kalasilingam University,Tamil Nadu, March 28, 2014.

 Rajeevan.P.P., “Multilevel Inverters”, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty Development Programme , Government Engineering College, Thrissur ,October 8, 2013.

 Rajeevan.P.P., “Recent Advances in Power Electronics and Drives”, Department of Electrical Engineering, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, December 18, 2013.

 N. Selvaganesan, “Conventional Control to Fractional control”, KSR Institute of Engineering and Technology, AICTE sponsored FDP”, Tiruchengode, May 11, 2013.

 N. Selvaganesan, “Control System Design Conventional to Fuzzy”, FDP Program, TKM Engineering College, Kollam, June 22, 2013.

 N. Selvaganesan, “Advanced controller structure for power electrics circuits and drives”, NIT, Trichy, November 9, 2013.

 N. Selvaganesan, “Fractional Control of Precision Modular Servo Setup for Better Limit Cycle Suppression”, FDP Program, CET, Trivandrum, December 7, 2013.

 N. Selvaganesan, “Certain Topics in Control System” FDP program, KLN College of Engineering, December 14, 2013.

 N. Selvaganesan, “Introduction to System Modeling”, Student Chapter, Mechanical Engineering Department, CET, Trivandrum, January 21, 2014.

 N. Selvaganesan, “Fractional Control of Precision Modular Servo Setup for Better Limit Cycle Suppression”, Faculty Development Program On SIGNAL PROCESSING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS, February 1, 2014.

 N. Selvaganesan, “Advanced controller structure for power electrics circuits”, IEEE Conference, ICGCCEE'14, March 8, 2014.

 N. Selvaganesan, “Fuzzy Observer For Chaotic Based Cryptography” National Conference, Marian Engineering College, March 18, 2014.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 51  N. Selvaganesan, “Frequency Domain Analysis” Technological Advancements in Electronics and Communication, Lourdes Matha College of Science & Technology, March 21, 2014.

 Rajesh Joseph Abraham , UK-India Bilateral Workshop on Sustainable Energy and Smart Grid, University of Bradford, UK, March 27-28, 2014.

 J. Cyriac, “Mass Spectrometry” National Seminar on Instrumental Methods of Chemical Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Govt. Brennen College, Dharmadam, Thalassery, November 22, 2013.

 J. Cyriac, National Science Day Lecture. B.K College, Amalagiri, Kottayam, February 28, 2014.

 J. Mary Gladis, Invited lecture on “Advanced materials for electrochemical energy storage systems” in the Rasathanthra - 2013 organized by Department of Chemistry, University of Kerala, Kariavattom , August 14, 2013.

 J. Mary Gladis, Invited lecture on “Multielemental Analysis using Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer” during National level workshop on “Characterization of Advanced Materials” (HEAM-CAM 2013), Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum, November 6- 8, 2013.

 K.G. Sreejalekshmi, “Combinatorial Chemistry Lecture Series”, XXVI Refresher Course in Chemistry, ASC, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, March 7, 2014.

 K.G. Sreejalekshmi, “Combinatorial Chemistry- Principle and Design Strategies” UGC sponsored Two Day National Seminar on Trends in Combinatorial Chemistry and Chemoinformatics, TKM College of Arts and Science, Kollam, March 20-21, 2014.

 K.G. Sreejalekshmi, “Concepts in Supramolecular Chemistry”, National Conference on Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanomaterials (SUPRANO 13). MSM College, Kayamkulam, December 11, 2013.

 K.G. Sreejalekshmi, “Supramolecular Materials Chemistry: Application in Materials Design”, National Conference on Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanomaterials (SUPRANO 13). MSM College, Kayamkulam, December 11, 2013.

 K.G. Sreejalekshmi., Delivered Key Note Adress on “Trends in Combinatorial Chemistry and Chemoinformatics”, UGC sponsored Two Day National Seminar, TKM College of Arts and Science, Kollam, March, 20-21 , 2014.

 K. Joseph, ”Key to Success in Teaching: Role of Research.”, S B College, Channganassery, May 3, 2013.

 K. Joseph, ”Nano Materials for Medical and Space Applications.”Kerala University,Trivandrum, May 13, 2013.

52 Annual Report 2013-142  K. Joseph, ”Advanced Materials,Characterization and Applications in Material science and Engineering”, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, September 2-6, 2013.

 K. Joseph, ”E-Waste Management: Green Materials and its Composition.”National Seminar on Environmental Conservation and Susainable Living, September 12, 2013.

 K. Joseph, ”NanoMaterials and Nanocomposites”, UGC Academic Staff College Karyavattom, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, October 23, 2013.

 K. Joseph, ”Scope of Scientific Research” Resource Person for the National Workshop on Research Methodology in Science, UGC Academic Staff College, Calicut, November 5, 2013.

 K. Joseph,”Emerging Trends in Nanoscience and Technology”, Rev.Dr.Mathew Thottiyil Memorial Endowment lecture,2013,organized by PG Department of Chemistry, Nirmala College,Muvattupuzha, November 9,2013.

 K. Joseph, National Seminar on Emerging Trends in Polymeric Materials (EPSM- 2014),Christian College, Chengannur, January 23,2014.

 K. Joseph,”Nano Materials For Space Applications.” Resource Person for the National Conference on Advanced Materials-NCAM-2014, PGP College of Arts and Science, Namakkal, February 07, 2014.

 K. Joseph, ”Fostering Scientific Temper-Trends and Opportunities in Chemistry“,at the Prof.Chacko Ramacha Memorial lecture and National Science day celebration, St. Berchamans College, Changanassery, February 28,2014.

 K. Joseph, ”Emerging Trends in Nano Science and Technology”, National science day lecture, Sponsored by KSCSTE, Newman College, Thodupuzha, February 28,2014.

 K. Joseph, ”Recent Advances in Nanomaterials” Resource Person for the UGC Sponsored National Conference on New Paradigms in Chemistry, Ab initio-Ad Futurum, St.Marys College, Sulthan Bathery, March 10,2014.

 K. Joseph, ”Advanced functional Materials”, Third National Conference on “Advanced Functional Materials and Applications (NCAFMA-2014),DRDO Sponsored, Kalasalingam University, Tamil Nadu, March 21, 2014.

 K. Joseph, ”Material Science and Modern Analytical Techniques”, UGC Sponsored National Seminar, organized by the Department of Chemistry, MPMMSN Trusts College, Shornur, Palakkad, Kerala, March 27,2014.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 53  K. Prabhakaran, “Porous carbon Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications”, National Conference on Recent Trends in Materials Science and Technology (NCMST), IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, July 10-12, 2013.

 K.Y. Sandhya,”Titanium dioxide based Solar Energy Conversion materials”, National Conference on Recent Trends in Materials Science & Technology,IIST, Thiruvananthapuram July, 2013.

 N.R. James, “Polysaccharides, Natures' gift to mankind” UGC Sponsored Seminar at St. Cyril's College, Adoor, Kerala, August 27, 2013.

 S. Mahesh, “Transforming Soft Structures with Light: Ostwald Ripening of Organic Nanodots to Rods'', Indian Institute of Science (IISc), May15-18, 2013.

 Jagadheep D., "The early phases of high-mass star formation", Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies, Tiruvalla (MACFAST), August 12, 2013

 Jagadheep D., "The early phases of high-mass star formation", Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies, Tiruvalla (MACFAST), August 12, 2013

 Jagadheep D., "High-mass star formation in its early phases", National Centre for Radio Astronomy (NCRA), January 27, 2014

 Narayanan A., “The Search for Missing Baryons”, Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies Tiruvalla (MACFAST), August 12, 2013

 Resmi L., “Reverse shock emission in GRBs”, High Energy Emission from AGN, Kashmir University, October 9, 2013

 Resmi L., “Reverse shock emission in GRBs”,32nd Annual Conference of the Astronomical Society of India, IISER Mohali, March 20, 2014.

 Babitha Justin, “Women in Contemporary Kerala”, St. John the Baptist Church. Pallom, Kottayam, October 14, 2013.

 Babitha Justin, “Women Travellers in Independent India -Travel Writing Through the Ages” Sadakkathulla Appa College. Thirunelveli , February 12, 2014.

 Ravi, V., “Quality Function Deployment and its usage in manufacturing industry”, National Institute of Technology, Trichy, April 25, 2013.

 Lekshmi V Nair, “PRA methods”, Loyola College of Social Sciences, September 6-8, 2013

 Lekshmi V Nair, “International Womens Day”, BCM College, Kottayam, October 10, 2013.

 Lekshmi V Nair, “Indian Sociology- Issues and Challenges”, Sacred Hearts College, Thevara, December 7-10, 2013

 Deepak. T.G., “Stochasic Differential Equations”, Government College, Chittur, Palakkad, May 21, 2013.

54 Annual Report 2013-142  Deepak. T.G., “Measure Theoretic Approach to Probability”, KKTM Government College, Kodungaloor, Cochin, November 18, 2013.

 Deepak. T.G., “Conditional Expectation and its Role in Theory of Estimation”, Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology, Nedumangad, Thiruvananthapuram, December 17, 2013.

 Deepak. T.G., “Modelling and Simulation”, Assumption College, Changanassery, January 18, 2014.

 Deepak. T.G., “Banach Fixed Point Theorem and Its Applications”, Aquinas College, Edacochin, Cochin, January 23, 2014.

 Deepak. T.G., “Several Variable Calculus”, DB Pampa College, Parumala, February 14, 2014.

 K.Mukherjee, “YOUNG TALENT NURTURE 2013” programme held in the Department of Mathematics at IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, May 28 June 8, 2013.

 K.Mukherjee, “Uniformly convergent numerical method for 2D singularly perturbed problems” in the International conference on Emerging Trends in Applied Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics at University of Calcutta , February 12-14, 2014.

 K.S.S.Moosath, “Foundations of Mathematics”,Intiation to Mathematics , S D College, Alappuzha, April 29 -May 11, 2013.

 K.S.S.Moosath, “Linear Algebra”, IISc Mathematics Initiative workshop on Differential Equations at Government College, Chittur, May 15 - 21 ,2013.

 K.S.S.Moosath, “Real Analysis”, DB College Parumala, June 20 ,2013.

 K.S.S.Moosath, “Hyperbolic Geometry”, Academic Staff College, University of Kerala, August 29 - 30, 2013.

 K.S.S.Moosath, “Curves and Surfaces”, Government College, Tirur, October 11, 2013.2013.

 K.S.S.Moosath, “On basics of Differential Geometry”, Government College, Chalakudy, October 8 , 2013.

 K.S.S.Moosath, “Linear Algebra”, Government Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram, October 31 -November 2, 2013.

 K.S.S.Moosath, “Banach Tarski Paradox Measure theoretic implications”, K.K.T.M College, Kodungallur , November 19, 2013.

 K.S.S.Moosath, “Linear Algebra”, Government Engineering College, Trissur, November 21, 2013.

 K.S.S.Moosath, “Method of Least Squares and its Geometry”, Mohandas College of Engineering, Trivandrum, December 18, 2013.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 55  K.S.S.Moosath, “Hyperbolic Geometry The Disc Model”, Aquinas College, Cochin, January 24, 2014.

 K.S.S.Moosath, “Several Variable Calculus”, D. B. Pampa College, February 14, 2014.

 K.S.S.Moosath, “Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems and certain Applications”, P M G College, Chalakudy, March 14, 2014.

 K.S.S.Moosath, “Differential Geometry”, Little Flower College, Guruvayoor ,March 21- 22, 2014.

 K. Sakthivel, A Little Journey to the Land of Mathematics, DST Inspire Camp, Noorul Islam University, Kumaracovil, July 18, 2013.

 K. Sakthivel, On the Solvability of Stochastic Navier-Stokes Equations with Levy Noise, National Conference on Partial Differential Equations and Applications, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, January 30-31, 2014.

 Raju K. George, Lecture on Octave and Machine Learning , May 25, 2013.

 Raju K. George, Talk on “Linear Algebra and Applications” at Palakkad Engineering College November 1, 2013.

 Raju K. George, MATLAB lecture at Attingal Engineering College , November 23, 2013.

 Raju K. George, As a resource person for the Faculty Development Programme at Govt. Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram, Palakkad , January 9- 10, 2014.

 Raju K. George, Delivered Lectures in the three day workshop on “Research Methodology, Writing Practice, Language and Soft Skills” at SasthraBhavan, Pattom , February 4, 2014.

 Raju K. George, Delivered Lectures on “Basics of Analysis and Calculus” in the All Kerala three day Workshop on Foundations of Mathematics for UG/PG students , Devaswom Board Pampa College, Parumala ,February 11- 14, 2014.

 Raju K. George, NPTEL lectures , IISc Bangalore ,March 2- 9, 2014.

 Sarvesh Kumar: “Discontinuous finite volume element methods and its application to miscible displacement problems in porous media", in the second international Conference “Supercomputer Technologies of Mathematical Modeling", Yakutsk, Russia, July 8-11, 2013.

 Sarvesh Kumar, “Discontinuous finite volume methods" in the international conference on “Emerging trends in applied Mathematics", University of Calcutta, Kolkata, February 12-14, 2014.

 Sarvesh Kumar, “On finite volume element methods", International conference on “Mathematics and Engineering Sciences" Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, March 20- 22, 2014.

 Sumitra S. Nair, Algorithms for Mining the Web, National Seminar on Computing and Communication, School of Computer Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, December 13, 2013.

56 Annual Report 2013-142  Sumitra S. Nair, Methods for Knowledge Extraction, Faculty Development Programme on Soft Computing, Department of Computer Science, Government Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram, January 9- 11, 2014.

 Apoorva Nagar, “mRNA Translation: Traffic on Decaying Roads”, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, February 2, 2014.

 J Solomon Ivan, “Nonclassicality breaking is the same as entanglement breaking for bosonic Gaussian channels”, AQIS conference, IMSc Chennai, August 25-30, 2013.

 Kadhane U., “Probing electronic and vibrational structure of PAH using Photoelectron Spectroscopy: comparison between theory and experiment ” 1st VAMDC India meeting at IPR, Ahmedabad, 2013.

 Kadhane U., “Design, Fabrication and Test results of ESI-Mass Spectrometer at IIST, AMP Lab” SPARC workshop at TIFR, Mumbai , January 2014.

 Murugesh S., Set of six lectures at the UGC refresher course for college teachers on Quantum Mechanics, Kannur University, Kannur, April 3-23, 2013.

 Murugesh S., “SPINTRONICS: Spin-current induced data storage and manipulation”, at INPHYNITT'14, NIT-Trichy, Tiruchirappalli, March 14, 2014.

 Naveen Surendran, “Kitaev Models”, Workshop on Transport in Topological Insulators, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, July 9-13, 2013.

 Naveen Surendran, Set of six lectures at the UGC refresher course for college teachers on Quantum Mechanics, Kannur University, Kannur, April 3-23, 2013.

 Pramod Gopinath, “Hybrids with Graphene for Optical Limiting Applications”, Annual Photonics Workshop on Nanophotonics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, February 27-28, 2014.

 Sudheesh Chethil, Set of six lectures at the UGC refresher course for college teachers on Quantum Mechanics, Kannur University, Kannur, April 3-23, 2013.

 Sudheesh Chethil, “Postulates of Quantum Mechanics”, Kannur University, April 10-12, 2013.

 Rakesh Kumar Singh, “Characterization of scattering using polarization fluctuations”, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, November 18, 2013.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 57 STUDENT ACTIVITIES DHANAK 2013 The fifth edition of Dhanak, the annual cultural festival, organized from September 20-23, 2013 was inaugurated by Sri. Resul Pookutty, an Oscar awardee. Dhanak has come a long way from an intra collegiate cultural event to a nationwide fest. Dhanak 2013 brought together the students from leading institutes like IITs, NITs, ISERs and other universities and colleges to IIST to celebrate the arts- music, theatre, dance, poetry, film, painting, sculpture and more. Hundreds of students all over the country thronged the campus to experience the fun, excitement and camaraderie of Dhanak.

IIST organized the Model United Nations (MUN) along with Dhanak 2013 on the following agenda: 1. Space Militarization: Control and Management 2. Non-Proliferation Treaty: Future Prospects and Implementation

MUN is an academic endeavour initiated by the United Nations, and it aims to educate students about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the agenda of United Nations. The event was judged by Prof. G. Gopakumar and Dr. C. A Josekutty from, University of Kerala. CONSCIENTIA 2014 The fifth edition of Conscientia, the annual technical festival, was organized in IIST from February 28 to March 3, 2014. It hosted students from more than 400 colleges across the country. Conscientia also holds the distinction of being India's first Astronomy and Technical student festival. Conscientia 2014 was inaugurated by Mr. S Ramakrishnan, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram in the IIST campus.

58 Annual Report 2013-142 Conscientia 2014 comprised of various competitions related to the fields of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, astronomy, and computer science that are not only educative but also compel the students to rack their brains and have fun doing it. Online events that have already started offer an exciting opportunity to win prizes from the comfort of the homes of the participants.

This time, there were three workshops during Conscientia, viz. Raspberry Pi, Quadcopter and Ethical Hacking as well as the Aerotrix Super Challenge, a National Remote Controlled Aircraft making competition conducted by Limca Book of Records record holder Aerotrix.

QC Fixion QC Fixion is IIST's annual general quizzing extravaganza. It was held on 15th February 2014 at Mascot Hotel, with Prof. P Vijaya Kumar as the quiz master. With participants from Trivandram and Kochi, it was a success and a great curtain raiser for Conscientia 2014. The first place was bagged by the team of Harris A and Sreenathan from University College Kariavattom. The team of Ashad S. Nath and Nithin Vasanth from CET and CUSAT respectively were the runners up, followed by the team of Ananthu Ravi and Bunny Raju of CET, who were the second runners up. RESEARCH SCHOLARS DAY The third IIST Research Scholars' Day was held during December 16-17, 2013. Sri G Ravindranath, Director, IISU inaugurated the program. Dr. K S Dasgupta delivered the directors remarks. 'Surabhi', a journal of the Humanities department was released during the function.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 59 The paper presentations were held under three categories, Engineering, Sciences and Humanities. Prof. G. Gopakumar, Vice Chancellor, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod gave the valedictory address. This year's research scholars' day had great response from the student community. Research scholars from various universities and IITs, and IIST research scholars participated in this three-day intellectual fiesta. Based on oral and poster presentations, best papers were chosen from each category by a panel of judges.

FRESHER'S DAY AT IIST The second year IISTians organized a Fresher's Day to welcome the first year students to the campus on August 20, 2014. An orientation about the various clubs and an ice-breaking session followed . CLUBS AT IIST The major clubs functioning at IIST are  Music club  Dance club  Quiz club  Photography club  Performance and digital arts club  Food for Thought Forum  Panacea – Club for Outreach Activities  Aero Club  Robotic club  Eco club  Astronomy Club The different clubs meet regularly. Different programs are organized for the students under the auspice of these clubs.

Aeroclub Activities Aeroclub Activities Considering the pan Indian and composite nature of the institute Independence day, Republic Day, Onam, Holi, Dusshera, RakshaBandan, Ganeeshotsav, Christmas, Id and Diwali were celebrated with all its zeal in IIST.

60 Annual Report 2013-142 The Aeroclub is the newest addition in IIST formed on 4th November, 2013 with mentors Dr. Pradeep Kumar P and Dr. Praveen Krishna I R and 21 student members.

This club is intended to enrich the technical knowledge and expose them with practical applications especially in the field of aerospace engineering.

This club envisaged conducive platform to explore student's latent talents and also to enable them to come out with their innovative ideas and models.

Through organizing competitions under this club, it helps them to develop a sense of motivation and achievement as well as experience of teamwork.

 Workshop and competition held: Making & flying an Ornithopter  Demonstrations: Boomerang, Water Rocket, RC helicopter, line follower, hydraulic arm  Seminars: 2 sessions on Matlab introduction and image processing, F1 cars, IC engines, Basics of aerodynamics, working principles of helicopter, space fantasy (Mars one mission & space elevator). Moreover, 1 quiz session was also held.

Seeing the interests of the students and their intensive involvement, Aeroclub summer 2014 projects were proposed and students enthusiastically participated in it such as Glider fabrication, Solar absorption refrigeration, Stability of aircraft with ardu-pilot, design of 2-stage water rocket etc. An interaction of Aeroclub with our former Director Dr. B N Suresh was also organized. ANNUAL SPORTS MEET The Sports Council of IIST, where students will get ample opportunities to exhibit their prowess in athletics, sports and games. has organized the 7th Annual Sports Meet on 22nd February 2014 at LNCPE, Kariyavattom. Dr Pukazhenthi IFS, Director, Sports and youth Affairs inaugurated the program. There were events for students, faculty members, staff members and kids.

INDUCTION (ORIENTATION) PROGRAMME A six day intensive induction program offered for the first semester students by the Department of Humanities. The objective of this workshop was to foster dynamic thinking essential in the current

Annual Report 2013-14 1 61 global scenario. Some of the topics covered include Self Esteem and Motivation, Positive Attitude, Goal Setting, and Creativity. The program had classroom sessions and outdoor training activities. NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMME (NLP) The Department of Humanities organizes an NLP programme for the first semester students. It will be a three day orientation programme for individual groups of students. Last years, the session was handled by the “Mind Masters” fame Dr. Abraham Abraham. This programme is structured in such a way as to guide them properly through proper mind mapping, to identify their talents and hidden potentials, to understand their positives and negatives, and to improve their mental abilities and skills. OTHER ACTIVITIES

CULTURAL AND NATIONAL FESTIVALS Considering the pan Indian and composite nature of the institute Independence day, Republic Day, Onam, Holi, Dusshera, RakshaBandan, Ganeeshotsav, Christmas, Id and Diwali were celebrated with all its zeal in IIST.

ONAM CELEBRATIONS The Vibrant and joyous festival of Onam was celebrated in IIST on September 13, 2013. It ensures a get together of students , faculty members and staff of IIST as a family and tries to inculcate a spirit of harmony and brotherhood. Her Highness Maharani Lakshmi Bhai, Princess of Travancore was the chief guest for the Onam celebrations. The program took off with the competition of intricately decorated athapookalam, followed by onam procession, onam message, exotic and traditional cultural programs, sumptuous onam feast and onam games.

62 Annual Report 2013-142 WOMEN'S DAY Women Cell of IIST celebrated the Women's day at 2.00 pm on Wednesday, 26th March, 2014. Dr. Tessy Thomas, Outstanding Scientist, Defence Research and Development Organization [DRDO] known as 'Missile Woman of India' interacted with the students about her life and work in DRDO.

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES 'Panacea' is the official committee for social outreach activities at IIST. The students of IIST have been regularly visiting orphanages such as "Nirmala Shishu Bhavan", "Divine Children's Home, Poojapura” and helping the students out there in their studies. Arranging blood donation campaign, visiting old age homes, donating clothes and food for the needy and poor in the society are also part of their activity. All festivals are being celebrated with the orphans and the elderly who are left alone in the old age homes. The students of IIST have been donating generously for these social cause and have also been arranging dresses, toys, bags and books for the kids in the orphanages and for the elderly in the different old age homes.

District Bala Shastra Congress

A two day workshop was conducted for the students of the different schools of Kerala on April 6-7, 2013. This was a joint initiative along with Kerala Shastra Sahitya Parishad with an objective of introducing the school students to the marvels behind great scientific achievements. The students were divided into different groups and each group was asked to work on a project guided by a faculty member. The programme was inaugurated by Prof K.N. Ninan, Emeritus Professor, IIST.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 63 INFRASTRUCTURE

LABORATORY FACILITIES

Department of Aerospace Engineering

The following well equipped laboratories have been established which accommodates various student projects, internships, inter disciplinary projects etc.

 Advanced Propulsion, Laser Diagnostics & High Speed Flow Lab  Aerodynamics Lab  Aerospace Structures lab  Computer Aided Design and Analysis Lab  Engineering Drawing Lab  Engineering Workshopb  Flight Mechanics Lab  Fluid Mechanics lab  Heat transfer Lab  Manufacturing Processes lab  Metrology and Computer Aided Inspection lab  Physical Metallurgy Lab  Propulsion lab  Strength of Materials lab  Thermal Engineering lab

Major inclusions are, a Micro Raman Spectrometer to study stress-strain distribution at microscopic levels in composites. A Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometer for typical wave propagation studies and modal analysis has been added in aerospace structures lab. High speed CMOS monochrome camera Phantom V-1210 capable of 12,000 frames per second at 1Mega pixels, mass flow meters of corioli and thermal type , HART compatible pressure transducers cum transmitters of various ranges , high speed data acquisition units have been added to the existing facilities of Thermal and propulsion laboratories. A separate facility have been set for calibration of temperature and pressure sensors. Currently a fluke- 150oC to 1200oC dry block calibrator and a low temperature Ametek dry block calibrator -90oC to 125oC with appropriate master RTD and Thermocouple are in place. A dewar flask for cryogenic fluid storage and transfer has been procured in the heat transfer lab. A shock tube having an operating pressure of 200 bar having a length of 12.8 m and inner diameter of 12.8 mm with associated pressure sensors and high speed data acquisition system have a set up and also a Dantec streamline pro constant temperature hot wire anemometer has been added in the aerodynamics laboratory. A deep drawing hydraulic press 100 T capacity have been installed and made operational in the Machine shop.

64 Annual Report 2013-142 Department of Avionics

The department has excellent lab facilities and state-of -the-art software tools in various disciplines of electrical and electronics engineering. The following are the consolidated list of various teaching and research laboratories in the department:  Analog Electronics Lab  Basic Electrical Lab  Basic Electronics Lab  Computer Networks Lab  Control System Lab  Digital Communication Lab  Digital Electronics Lab  Digital Signal Processing Lab  ECAD Lab  Instrumentation and Measurement Lab  Micro Processor Lab  Navigation Systems and Sensor Lab  Power Electronics Lab  RF and Microwave Lab  VLSI Lab  Satellite Lab

Many of the Labs were further appended with many new equipments in the budget year:

Image processing and Computer Vision lab was developed with ten entry level workstation, thermal imaging camera, stereo vision camera, and 4 GigE vision high speed camera for various image processing related activities. This lab uses both open source platform as well as licensed application software such as MATLAB, visual studio profession 2012 for various lab related activities. Students use this facility to do their labs for courses like Digital image processing, Video processing, Pattern recognition, and computer vision. UG and PG students use this facility to do their final year projects in various areas like, image retrieval, speech processing, computer vision, image and video processing , soft computing and machine learning etc. The RF and microwave laboratory was upgraded with Spectrum analyzer (10 Hz to 44 GHz), Microwave Signal Generator (10 MHz to 40 GHz), Vector Network Analyzer PNA-X (10 MHz to 43.5 GHz). Recently, a MITS FP21 Precision PCB Prototyping Machine has been procured which is capable of making minimum line separation of the order of 50 micron. The lab is also equipped with most of the leading 3D electromagnetic simulators like ANSYS HFSS, ANSYS Designer, Agilent ADS, CST Microwave Studio, FEKO. Control Lab was upgraded with magnetic levitation, torsional system, mass-spring system and double inverted pendulum system during current budget year. This will help UG and PG students as well as research scholars of the department to design a controller and test the controller in loop studies.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 65 Department of Chemistry

Laboratories in the Chemistry department include:

 General Chemistry Lab  Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Lab  Physical Chemistry Lab  Material Characterisation Lab  Polymer Processing Lab  Chemical Engineering Lab  Nano Science Lab

In the current academic year the laboratories were further expanded by including facilities like LOI analyser, High speed centrifuges, Inert atmosphere furnace, Contact angle goniometer, Two-probe electrical conductivity meter, Shore D hardness tester etc.

Department of Earth and Space Sciences

Currently the department has the following labs with state-of the-art facilities.

 Astronomy Lab  Atmospheric Science Lab  Geology Lab  Remote Sensing Lab

Department of Humanities

Lab facilities of the department includes

 Audio Visual Lab is intended to

 Enhance Communication Skills  Creating Content for various ISRO centres  Content Development and Materials Development for lectures  Recording of Interviews, talks of Dignitaries, etc

 Language lab: Developed an English language Software 'Huani' for IIST students

66 Annual Report 2013-142 Department of Mathematics

Lab facilities include  Programming lab  High Performance Computing Lab equipped with 10 high-end work stations, Quad Core processor with 72 GB RAM, 4 GB NVIDIA Graphic Card Memory and 30 inch, LCD Monitor

Department of Physics

Currently the department has the following labs with state-of the-art facilities.  Applied and Adaptive Optics  Atomic and Molecular Physics  Computational Physics  General Physics  Lasers and Photonics  Modern Physics  Optics  Solid State Technology

The Labs acquired the following facilities :

Applied and Adaptive Optics:

CW Diode Pumped Laser, Autocorrelator for measuring pulse width of Femtosecond Laser system, High power He-Ne Laser systems, 1' Mounted Lens Arrays, Fiber Coupler.

Atomic and Molecular Physics: High resolution molecular ion mass spectrometer with energy analyzer, Pulsed OPO nanosecond laser with wavelength range between 220 and 2400 nm.

Computational Physics: Red Hat Workstation license and five Red Hat Desktop licenses for computers.

Solid State Technology: Thermal evaporator, High-temperature vacuum oven, Probe- station with Agilent parameter analyzer systems, X-ray fluorescence system, Superconductivity setup.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 67 LIBRARY

The IIST Library has continued its support to teaching, learning and research by providing information resources through a carefully developed and balanced collection of books, journals and non-conventional resources and providing access to journals, data bases and documents. During the report year, library started functioning in its permanent building in the campus. Library collection was organised in the area earmarked for the purpose. The reprographic facility along with binding facility was also shifted to the new building. With a view to develop a quality collection, a series of book exhibitions were arranged and a good number of books selected by faculty were added to collection. Compared to the previous year the book collection grew by 30% with newly added reference books, text books, and supplementary reading materials.

Throughout the year uninterrupted connectivity to 16 e-resources, 15 full text and one bibliographic, was maintained. These resources include ACM Digital Library, AIAA, AIP, American Meteorological Society, APS, Annual Reviews, ASME, Cambridge Online, IEEEXplore Digital Library, IOP, JSTOR, MathSciNet, Optic Infobase, Oxford Journals, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Science Direct. The usage of online resources has registered 20% increase in the report year. In addition to the regular Library and Information services, Book Bank service was also being provided since 2011 to ensure basic study materials to IIST students on long term loan basis. The book bank system successfully continued in the report year with 19% increase in book collection compared to the previous year. The collection was enriched by more titles recommended by faculty. Students borrowed 7500 volumes from Book Bank during the year. The library operations are fully computerised by using open source library application software KOHA. Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) and e-resources are accessible from anywhere in the campus 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. The library portal developed by using Drupal software enriched with new electronic resources. Subscription to web scale discovery tool Summon continued to facilitate usage of electronic resources. All the print journals were renewed except 3 and 21 journals were subscribed newly making the total number of print journals 83. 68 Annual Report 2013-142 The resource status of the Library is given in table .

The reprographic Facility, equipped with heavy duty high speed digital printers caters to the reprographic needs of students, faculty and others. More than 8.5 lakh copies were taken in the report year. Binding facility is another heavily used facility in IIST where 6437 volumes were bound in the report year. The Reprographic Facility and the Binding Facility together with the newly set up Graphic Design Facility cater to the publishing needs of the Institute making library the publishing hub of the Institute. In the report year major designing, printing and binding works realised in library includes annual report of the Institute, Surabhi - journal of arts and literature published by IIST, news letter, conference proceedings, materials for short term courses and workshops, and PhD theses. The last three issues of Sounding Rocket: students' newspaper were also printed in this Facility.

In order to promote the use of online resources, a series of Resource Awareness Programmes (REAP) were organised in the Library.

COMPUTER SYSTEMS GROUP (CSG)

Computer Systems Group manages the IT, computing, networking, telecommunication, multimedia and security-surveillance infrastructures of IIST. During the year 2013-14, IT services of CSG have expanded to 20 buildings that hosts more than 1800 computer terminals and mobile devices in the campus.

Annual Report 2013-14 1 69 The 3TFLOPS high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure maintained by CSG as a common facility in IIST has been made available round-the-clock through remote-access within the campus network. Resident scholars have been facilitated physical-access to the work-stations by implementing fingerprint based access-control and surveillance systems. HPC system utilization in IIST has exceeded hardware limits, and proposal to procure latest processors, work-stations and storage to enhance these facilities to 30TFLOPS, is being prepared for technical and administrative approvals. Server infrastructure consists of 60 hardware servers maintained by CSG, and has been expanded by setting up several additional virtual server-platforms to host new academic and scientific software. Proposal for procurement of additional server-hardware is being submitted for administrative approvals. COWAA, the software for management information systems hosted at IIST, has been upgraded by replacing legacy Solaris Sybase Database server with the latest Linux version, as per guidelines issued by INSES, ISRO HQ Canteen Material Management System, the software for canteen stock management, has been hosted in IIST and made operational. iCampus, the software for academic management, is under in-house development at IIST, and its preliminary modules have been hosted and made operational at “academics.iist.ac.in”. Online-application portal for MTech 2014 Admissions have also been developed and hosted in the Internet at IIST. Campus Network infrastructure has been expanded, and now has more than 90 network-switches linking all academic and administrative offices and facilities. The new Administration building was uplinked to the Campus Network, and network services were made available by CSG overnight. COWAA network has been extended to include additional terminals in the new Administration building, and offices of the Heads of Academic departments.. Work to lay underground optical fiber cables (OFC) to replace existing wireless-links, and provisioning wired-LANs in all academic/research labs in the campus are also in progress. Internet services using 1000Mbps high-speed link from National Knowledge Network (NKN) of the MHRD, Government of India, and other intranet web and eMail services have been made available round-the-clock for academic and administrative purposes through several LANs and wireless- networks maintained at all these locations. 10 Mbps Internet link from BSNL facilitates web-hosting and also backs-up the 1000Mbps link in case of network-outages. Roaming wireless internet services have been introduced within the campus for use by about 1200 students and members of faculty. A six proxy-server bank has been implemented to manage daily internet data usage that peaks upto 126 Mbps. Departmental Network Printing has been successfully implemented in few offices in IIST to share printers and reduce consumable costs.

70 Annual Report 2013-142 Multi-centre online-counseling for BTech 2013 Admissions was facilitated by CSG, by setting up ad-hoc computer-networks at Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Delhi, and linking each of these to IIST's server-facility in Thiruvananthapuram. Network Surveillance Camera systems have been extended to all hostel buildings in IIST for improving security. SOFTWARE SUPPORT GROUP (SSG) Software Support Group (SSG) provides various software services and technical assistance in the institute.

a. Current Software Development: Analysis, Design, Coding, Integration and Testing 1. i-Campus 2. Campus Portal b. Additional Services: Analysis, Design, Coding, Implementation, Maintenance and Enhancements 1. IIST Admission Software (M.Tech. and B.Tech.) 2. IIST Multi-center Counselling Software 3. ID Card Generation System 4. Hostel Management System 5. Online Student Feedback System 6. Grading System 7. ISRO Absorption Counselling Software 8. B.Tech. Result Publishing 9. Student Profile 10. Payment Information System 11. Student/Staff Directory 12. Student Payment Information System

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c. Customized Applications: Implementation, Maintenance and Enhancements 1. Canteen Management System 2. COWAA IIST MIS 3. Personal Information System d. Software Support: Technical and User support 1. COWAA Implementation in Administrative areas 2. COWAA Database support, backup and trouble shooting e. Other Activities: 1. Website design for seminars/workshops 2. Record keeping and document preparation 3. Analyze and provide various reports and charts based on requirement 4. Help desk handling, email monitoring and sending sms as part of B.Tech. Admission 5. Uploading and version control of applications in server

HINDI SECTION AND OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE

IIST has a full fledged Hindi Section with a Hindi Officer, Junior Hindi Translator and Hindi Typist catering to the Constitutional and Statutory requirements regarding the Official Language, Hindi, but also create a conducive environment for the officials of the Institute to learn Hindi and work in Hindi. Official Language Implementation Committee has been constituted in the year 2012.

72 Annual Report 2013-142 Major activities related to Policy Implementation

 Check Points have been established in order to ensure the compliance of Official Languages Act, 1963, Official Languages Rules, 1976 and relevant orders issued by the Dept. of Official Language time to time.  Hindi language training has been started for the Employees and Officers who do not have working knowledge in Hindi . Hindi Stenography training has been started.  Procured enough copies of the Compilation of Orders regarding the Use of Hindi, Hindi- English- Hindi Dictionaries and Scientific and Technical Glossaries for reference.  The Institute has been enrolled as a Member Office of the Town Official Language Implementation Committee of Thiruvananthapuram.  Incentive Scheme for doing Official work in Hindi has been introduced in the Institute.  Degree Certificates and all other certificates such as certificate of participation/ certificate of merit are issued by the Institute in bilingual format (both Hindi and English) only.  Four Hindi Workshops were conducted : on June 28, 2013 (for the Employees of Technical area), September 4, 2013( for the Officers of the Administrative areas), December 23-24, 2013(for the Employees of Administrative areas)and on March 14, 2014(for the Employees of Technical area)  Four Quarterly meetings of the OLIC were conducted and four Quarterly Progress Reports regarding progressive use of Hindi in the Institute were sent to the Department of Official Language. Annual Report 2012-2013 was printed in Hindi.  Standard forms (71 numbers) used in various Administrative and other Departments were bilingualised, visiting cards of 113 Officers, 182 name boards and 118 rubberstamps were prepared in bilingual format . Course Record, Answer Books, Grade Sheet and Provisional Certificate have been printed in bilingual form.  Hindi Fortnight was organized in the first half of September, 2013 with competitions for both Students and Staff of IIST. World Hindi Day was also observed in 08 and 09 January, 2014.  Two Jr. PAs were trained in Hindi Stenography  Purchased 283 Hindi books worth Rs.25,064/- during the year.  Prize distribution function were organized on October 18, 2013 to award merit certificates and cash awards to the winners of various Hindi Competitions. Certificates were also awarded in this function to the participants of the Hindi Workshops conducted during the year.  Check Points have been established in order to ensure the compliance of Official Languages Act, 1963, Official Languages Rules, 1976 and relevant orders issued by the Dept. of Official Language time to time.  Hindi language training has been started for the Employees and Officers who do not have working knowledge in Hindi .

Annual Report 2013-14 1 73 CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT The institute is functional in its new campus from August 2010 is planned in nearly 100 acres of land, which at the final stage of its completion will have four academic blocks, administrative block, library, hostels, student activity centre and dining areas.

Aerospace building, Physical Sciences block, 10 hostels, Administrative block and Library building are fully functional. Avionics block and Inter Disciplinary block are nearing completion.

OTHER FACILITIES A fully residential institute, the campus is equipped to meet the needs of the students with all necessary amenities.

IIST Hostels: Eleven hostels functioning in the campus, built based on contemporary architecture cater to the residential accommodation of students. There are separate hostels for B.Tech, M.Tech. and Research Scholars and around 800 students reside in the campus .

Two well equipped canteens giving prime importance to health and hygiene provide food to the students. There are separate canteens for faculty members and staff.

A private run cafeteria provides vegetarian and non vegetarian food to all .

A stationery shop with essential commodities for students also functions as part of the cafeteria.

74 Annual Report 2013-142 Medical facilities consists of a well equipped and twenty four hour functional Medical Centre with doctors and paramedical staff within the campus. A tie up also exists with one of the leading hospitals in the vicinity to provide medical services to the students. Accident Insurance coverage is available to all the students through this hospital. A well equipped ambulance is always available in the campus.

Health facilities in the form of most modern equipments have been provided in the gymnasium along with the services of trained instructors.

Sports facilities include indoor and out door badminton courts, volley ball and basket ball courts and cricket practice nets within the campus. A playground has been set up in the Institute property earmarked for residential complex well within the reach of the students. Two Physical Education Instructors have been engaged to support the students with training. The students are also supported to represent the institute in outside sports meets .

A private run book store functioning in the campus meets the needs of the students in utilizing the book grant of B. Tech. students along with their regular needs.

Banking facilities are provided by a branch of Union Bank of India with ATM facility in the campus.

Transport Division provides conveyance for faculty members and staff to and from the Institute. Students are provided transport to the city and back during holidays.

Vigilance and Security Division provides security support throughout the campus.

Civil and Maintenance Division meets the day to day maintenance work in IIST.

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Audit Report 2013-2014

22 Annual Report 2013-142 76Annual Report 2013-14 221 INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT

We have audited the accompaning financial statements of M/S INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Society), Valiamala PO, Trivandrum-695547 which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2013, & the Income and Expenditure Statement for the year then ended, and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.

Management's Responsibility for the Financial Statements

Management is responsible for the preparation of these financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position & financial performance of the Institute in accordance with the Accounting Standards issued by The ICAI. This responsibility includes the design, implementation and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditor's Responsibility

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Those Standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the Institute's preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of the accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

Basis of Qualified Opinion: 1. The balances in personal accounts are subject to confirmation by respective parties.

2. No provision for gratuity, pension and leave encashment has been provided in the accounts as specified in 6.d of Notes forming part of accounts.

Qualified Opinion

In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, subject to the above mentioned opinion, the financial statements give the information required by the Act in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India:

i. in the case of the balance sheet, of the state of affairs of the Institute as at 31 March 2013; ii. in the case of the Income and Expenditure statement, of the deficit for the year ended on that date;

for ARSB & Associates Chartered Accountants (FRN: 009803S)

CA. P. Ananthakrishnan Date: October 8, 2014 Partner Place: Trivandrum Membership No: 201711

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BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2014

(Amount in Rs.)

Schedule As at 31.03.2014 As at 31.03.2013 CORPUS/CAPITAL FUND AND LIABILITIES Corpus / Capital Fund 1 2,322,181,547 2,161,668,507 Reserves and Surplus 2 2 0 Earmarked Funds / Endowment Funds 3 5,941,114 6,957,274 Long Term Liabilities and Provisions 4 25,815,086 20,538,011 Current Liabilities and Provisions 5 75,766,153 87,212,871 TOTAL 2,429,703,902 2,276,376,663

ASSETS

Fixed Assets 6 2,076,607,597 1,797,666,737 Long Term Assets, Loans, Advances etc 7 93,363,171 165,391,057 Current Assets, Loans, Advances etc 8 259,733,134 313,318,869 TOTAL 2,429,703,902 2,276,376,663

Significant Accounting Policies 19 & Notes on Accounts

As per our report of even date attached.

For ARSB & Associates For and on behalf of Chartered Accountants Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) FRN : 009803S

CA. P.Ananthakrishnan Dr. K. S. Dasgupta R. Hari Prasad (Partner, Mem No. 201711) Director Finance Officer

Place : Thiruvananthapuram Date : 8 th October, 2014

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INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2014

(Amount in Rs.)

Schedule 2013-2014 2012-2013 INCOME Grants / Subsidies 9 260,000,000 190,081,560 Fees / Subscriptions 10 31,266,779 65,461,313 Interest Earned 11 11,921,605 526,809 Other Income 12 1,934,029 712,874 TOTAL (A) 305,122,413 256,782,556

EXPENDITURE Establishment Expenses - Regular 13 116,561,284 97,211,687 Establishment Expenses - Support Services 14 99,483,456 83,509,907 Academic & Other Student Expenses 15 112,513,623 92,049,359 Other Administrative Expenses 16 86,903,214 83,793,730 Depreciation 6 212,809,726 178,954,970 Deficit of Canteen Accounting Committee 17 2,071,547 1,150,336 Deficit of Student Activities Account 18 3,301 0 TOTAL (B) 630,346,151 536,669,989

Excess of Income over Expenditure (A-B) (325,223,739) (279,887,432)

Less : Prior period items 555,494 347,399,851 Extraordinary Item 3,707,727 0 Balance being Surplus/(Deficit) carried over to Corpus/Capital Fund (329,486,960) (627,287,284)

Significant Accounting Policies 19 & Notes on Accounts

As per our report of even date attached. For and on behalf of For ARSB & Associates Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) Chartered Accountants FRN : 009803S

CA. P.Ananthakrishnan (Partner, Mem No. 201711) Dr. K. S. Dasgupta R. Hari Prasad Director Finance Officer Place : Thiruvananthapuram Date : 8th October, 2014

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SCHEDULES TO BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2014

(Amount in Rs.)

As at 31.03.2014 As at 31.03.2013 Schedule 1 :: CORPUS / CAPITAL FUND Total Grant Received - Capital and Revenue (A) Opening Balance of Total Grant Received 3,597,724,987 2,949,424,987 Add : Grant received during the year 750,000,000 648,300,000 4,347,724,987 3,597,724,987

Total transfer to Revenue Grant (B) Opening Balance of amount transferred to Revenue Grant 584,672,442 394,590,882 Add : Transfer to Revenue Grant during the year 260,000,000 190,081,560 844,672,442 584,672,442

Surplus / Deficit transferred from Income & Expenditure Account (C )

Opening Balance of net income / (expenditure) (851,384,038) (224,096,754) Add/Deduct : - Current Year Surplus / (Deficit) (329,486,960) (627,287,284) (1,180,870,998) (851,384,038) Balance at the year end (A - B + C) 2,322,181,547 2,161,668,507

Schedule 2 :: RESERVES AND SURPLUS Opening Balance 0 0 Additions during the year a) Land at Ponmudi - 20 acres 1 0 (nominal value assigned to land transferred by Government of Kerala free of cost) b) Land at Valiamala - 44.18928 acres 1 0 (nominal value assigned to land transferred by Government of Kerala free of cost)

TOTAL 2 0

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(Amount in Rs.) As at 31.03.2014 As at 31.03.2013

Schedule 4 :: LONG TERM LIABILITIES AND PROVISIONS a) Employee Provident Funds and Retirement Benefits - General Provident Fund 14,516,238 12,330,666 - Contributory Provident Fund 925,241 1,669,793 - New Pension Scheme 0 120,294 - Other Retirement Benefits 7,595,607 5,613,258 Sub Total (a) 23,037,086 19,734,011 b) Caution Deposit 2,778,000 804,000 - Caution Deposit from Students 2,778,000 804,000 Sub Total (b)

TOTAL 25,815,086 20,538,011

Schedule 5 :: CURRENT LIABILITIES AND PROVISIONS a) Current Liabilities 1 Sundry Creditors - For Goods Capital Goods 28,486,286 9,132,733 Revenue Expenditure 58,297 0 - For Services 15,954,070 6,239,806 2. Statutory Liabilities - Overdue 0 0 - Others 436,528 440,028 3. Other Current Liabilities - Interest refundable to DOS (received) 22,149,749 59,772,556 - Interest refundable to DOS (accrued) 1,545,544 7,485,128 - Others 7,135,679 4,142,620 Sub Total (a) 75,766,153 87,212,871

TOTAL 75,766,153 87,212,871

Schedule 7 :: LONG TERM ASSETS, LOANS, ADVANCES ETC a) Loans - Staff 1,830,342 1,779,146 b) Advances and other amounts on capital account recoverable in cash or in kind or for value to be received - Mobilisation Advance to SPCL 35,014,537 108,051,791 - Interim Advance to SPCL 54,300,000 54,300,000 c) Security Deposits 2,218,292 1,260,120

TOTAL 93,363,171 165,391,057

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SCHEDULES TO BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2014

(Amount in Rs.)

As at 31.03.2014 As at 31.03.2013 Schedule 8 :: CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS, ADVANCES ETC a) CURRENT ASSETS

1. Inventories - Canteen inventories 635,636 574,288 2. Sundry Debtors

- Debtors outstanding for a period exceeding six months 0 0 - Others 0 36,000

3. Cash Balances in hand 21,492 6,871 (including cheques/drafts and imprest) 4. Bank Balances a) With Scheduled Banks

- On Current Accounts (5,186,822) (35,588,728) - On Deposit Accounts 213,046,043 294,916,060 - On Earmarked & Retirement Benefits Accounts 29,257,012 25,884,722 Sub Total (a) 237,773,361 285,829,213 b) Loans, Advances and Other Assets

1. Advances and other amounts recoverable in cash or in kind or for value to be received

- On Capital Account 377,889 2,919,278 - Prepayments 11,098,111 12,668,984 - Others 6,181,014 4,416,266 2. Income Accrued

- On Bank Deposits 4,212,724 7,485,128 - On Other Deposits 90,035 0 Sub Total (b) 21,959,773 27,489,656

TOTAL (a+b) 259,733,134 313,318,869

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Schedule 3 :: EARMARKED/ENDOWMENT FUNDS FUND-WISE BREAK UP TOTAL

Ministry of 2013-14 2012-13 DST KSCSTE - Earth & ISRO-GBP TIFR - DST Inspire - Inspire - Prathibha NCM - Space - ABLN & C 2014 Dr.Sakthivel Dr. Mahesh 2014 Science Project 2013 a) Opening balance of the funds (415,225) 4,500,000 1,144,877 1,312,397 0 0 0 6,542,049 10,033,826 b) Additions to the Fund i) Donation/Grants 0 0 0 1,691,680 284,625 373,375 250,000 2,599,680 3,800,000 ii) Income from Investment made on account 249,138 0 0 0 0 0 0 249,138 0 of Funds

iii) Other additions (Specify Nature) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total (a + b) (166,087) 4,500,000 1,144,877 3,004,077 284,625 373,375 250,000 9,390,867 13,833,826 c) Utilisation/Expenditure towards objective of funds

i) Capital Expenditure - Fixed Assets 2,970 0 69,200 216,568 0 0 0 288,738 5,791,745 - Others 0, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sub Total 2,970 0 69,200 216,568 0 0 0 288,738 5,791,745 ii) Revenue Expenditure - Salaries, Wages & Allowance 0 0 980,439 1,109,680 0 0 0 2,090,119 1,179,355 - Rent/Consumables 0 0 35,787 158,451 0 0 0 194,238 0 - Other Administrative Expenses 5,123 0 35,000 147,029 338,694 363,595 215,466 1,104,907 77,277 Sub Total 5,123 0 1,051,226 1,415,160 338,694 363,595 215,466 3,389,264 1,256,632 iii) Fund Returned to the Principal Investigator 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 243,400 Total (c) 8,093 0 1,120,426 1,631,728 338,694 363,595 215,466 3,678,002 7,291,777 Net Balance payable as at the year-end (a+b-c) 0 4,500,000 24,451 1,372,349 0 9,780 34,534 5,941,114 6,957,274 Net Balance receivable as at the year-end (c-a-b) 174,180 0 0 0 54,069 0 0 228,249 415,225 Note :Classified under Current Assets under Sch 8

(Amount in Rs.) Schedule 6 :: FIXED ASSETS

Additions Gross Block Transfer to Gross Block (at Particulars (at cost) as at Rate of Net Block as at Under Installed from Impairments Deletions cost) as at Net Block as at 01.4.2013 Installed Depreciatio As at For the year Deletions / As at 31.3.2014 01.04.2013 Installation Uninstalled 31.03.2014 31.3.2014 n Impairments

Land 33,252,000 2 0 0 0 0 33,252,002 0.00% 0 0 0 0 33,252,002 33,252,000

Building 938,085,153 296,225,302 0 0 0 0 1,234,310,45 10.00% 179,580,496 105,472,99 0 285,053,494 949,256,961 758,504,657 5 8 Plant & Machinery 411,983,363 120,385,186 0 0 0 91,790 15.00% 119,739,000 43,876 181,582,369 350,694,390 292,244,363 532,276,759 61,887,247 Furniture & Fittings 129,554,832 15,436,958 0 0 0 0 10.00% 35,467,251 0 46,419,705 98,572,085 94,087,581 144,991,790 10,952,454 Ambulance 880,644 0 0 0 0 0 15.00% 132,097 0 244,379 636,265 748,547 880,644 112,282 Motor Cars & Bikes 11,262,430 0 0 0 0 0 15.00% 5,005,220 0 5,943,802 5,318,628 6,257,210 11,262,430 938,582 Motor Buses & Truck 6,129,906 0 0 0 0 0 15.00% 2,459,484 0 3,010,047 3,119,859 3,670,422 6,129,906 550,563 Computers 77,878,789 310,662 0 0 0 0 60.00% 70,333,157 0 75,046,933 3,142,518 7,545,632 78,189,451 4,713,776 Software 30,089,401 16,758,540 0 0 540,000 0 60.00% 26,943,245 505,440 38,359,886 7,948,055 3,146,156 46,307,941 11,922,081 Library Books 33,258,406 12,793,924 0 0 0 0 60.00% 27,295,286 0 38,549,512 7,502,818 5,963,120 46,052,330 11,254,226 Campus networking 23,210,541 3,015,595 0 0 0 0 60.00% 20,469,446 0 23,923,460 2,302,676 2,741,095 26,226,136 3,454,014 Canteen Equipments 15,228,933 869,114 0 0 0 0 15.00% 5,754,681 0 7,306,186 8,791,861 9,474,252 16,098,047 1,551,505 Soft Furnishing 1,043,023 0 0 0 0 0 100.00% 1,043,023 1,043,023 0 0 1,043,023 0 Uninstalled Assets 0

Plant & Machinery 24,847,553 0 13,577,635 20,149,314 0 0 0.00% 0 0 0 18,275,874 24,847,553 18,275,874 0 Furniture & Fittings 1,549,329 0 0 1,549,329 0 0 0.00% 494,222,386 0 0 0 1,549,329 0 0 TOTAL 1,738,254,30 465,795,283 13,577,635 21,698,643 540,000 91,790 315,267,416 549,316 706,482,796 1,488,813,99 1,244,031,91 3 2,195,296,78 212,809,72 2 7 Previous Year 598,621,43 26,396,882 0 0 0 8 0 0 494,222,386 1,244,031,91 797,968,570 Capital Work in 339,162,18 305,003,39 0 7

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2013-14 2012-13

Schedule 9 :: GRANTS / SUBSIDIES (irrevocable Grants & Subsidies Recovered)

1. Central Government 260,000,000 190,081,560

TOTAL 260,000,000 190,081,560

Schedule 10 :: FEES / SUBSCRIPTIONS

1. Entrance Fees 6,942,392 59,298,186

2. Annual Fees/Subscriptions 24,324,387 6,163,127

TOTAL 31,266,779 65,461,313

Schedule 11 :: INTEREST EARNED

1. On Term Deposit

a) With Scheduled Banks 11,831,570 526,809

b) Others 90,035 0

2. On Loans / Advances

a) Employee/Staff 0 0

TOTAL 11,921,605 526,809

Schedule 12 :: OTHER INCOME

1. Rent Receipts 546,937 488,167

2. Sale of Tender Forms 139,013 104,902

3. Miscellaneous Income 1,248,079 119,805

TOTAL 1,934,029 712,874

Schedule 13 :: ESTABLISHMENT EXPENSES - REGULAR 1. Salaries & Allowances 106,070,031 89,237,715 2. Contribution to NPS 5,896,929 4,364,809 3. Contribution to CPF 87,424 167,658 4. Medical Expense- Staff 2,572,275 1,679,368 5. Expense on Employees Retirement & Terminal Benefits 706,400 628,000 6. Interest on PF Contribution 1,198,355 1,027,067 7. Staff Welfare Expense 0 3,659 8. Staff Training Expense 29,870 103,411 TOTAL 116,561,284 97,211,687

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2013-14 2012-13

Schedule 14 :: ESTABLISHMENT EXPENSES - SUPPORT SERVICES 1. Consultancy & Manpower Charges 73,757,637 63,147,728 2. Remuneration to Contract Employees 25,725,819 20,362,179 TOTAL 99,483,456 83,509,907

Schedule 15 :: ACADEMIC & OTHER STUDENT EXPENSES 1. Admission Expense 15,997,560 22,328,293 2. Assistanceship to Students 31,199,991 15,963,919 3. Library Services 24,850,070 23,230,407 4. Academic Expense 29,960,150 22,936,726 5.Supplies & Materials 9,156,916 6,688,542 6.Student Activities Expense 1,348,936 895,472 TOTAL 85,360,817 92,049,359

Schedule 16 :: OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 1. Maintenance & Upkeep Repairs & Maintenance 3,082,449 11,197,917 Repairs & Maintenance - CMD 16,049,212 0 House Keeping Expense 899,083 1,285,489 Sub Total (a) 12,483,406 12,483,406 2. Professional Charges Audit Fees 183,146 44,943 Legal Expense 107,219 240,636 Sub Total (b) 290,365 285,579 3. Administrative Expenses - Others Vehicle Operating Expense 22,436,023 25,258,042 Electricity & Water Charges 17,744,087 15,925,290 Travelling Expense 5,647,437 6,357,470 Research & Development Expense 2,942,422 1,796,055 Printing & Stationery 3,873,354 4,669,539 Advertisement & Publicity 1,074,197 1,407,754 Hospitality Expense 4,754,131 4,082,770 Telephone & Internet Expense 2,899,985 3,165,585 Office Expense 2,880,007 1,960,779 Recruitment Expense 2,301,627 6,229,807 Security Expense - Others 13,711 53,505 Bank Charges 15,124 18,149 Compensation Paid 0 100,000 Sub Total (c) 66,582,105 71,024,745 TOTAL 86,903,214 83,793,730

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(Amount in Rs.)

2013-14 2012-13

Schedule 17 :: Income and Expenditure Account of the Canteen Accounting Committee

INCOME

Students Assistanceship ( BTech) 10,037,145 12,111,520

Canteen Mess Collection (Contract) 1,765,175 1,377,875

Canteen Mess Collection (Misc) 3,635,088 2,521,166

Canteen Mess Collection (MTech Students) 1,267,200 465,600

Canteen Mess collection (Staff) 629,355 350,042

Canteen Mess Collection (Students) 881,740 834,860

Interest on Deposit 45,873 34,171

Increase in Closing Stock 61,348 29,502

TOTAL (A) 18,322,924 17,724,736

EXPENDITURE

Canteen Expenses-Material 20,394,471 18,875,072

TOTAL (B) 20,394,471 18,875,072

Excess of Income over Expenditure (A-B) (2,071,547) (1,150,336)

Less : Prior period items 0 -544,786

Balance being Surplus/(Deficit) carried over to Income and -2,071,547 -605,550 Expenditure Account

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(Amount in Rs.)

2013-14

Schedule 18 :: Income and Expenditure Account of the Canteen Accounting Committee

INCOME

Workshop Income 504,700

Sponsorship Received 679,620

Accomodation Fees 152,600

Sale of Tshirts 77,000

Miscellaneous Income 11,000

TOTAL (A) 1,424,920

EXPENDITURE

Logistics and Other Expenses 558,070

Workshop Payments 399,999

Prize Money 302,000

Publicity 111,608

Travel Expenses 56,544

TOTAL (B) 1,428,221

Excess of Income over Expenditure (A-B) (3,301)

Less : Prior period items 0

Balance being Surplus/(Deficit) carried over to Income and -3,301 Expenditure Account

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Receipt 2013-14 2012-13 Payments 2013-14 2012-13

I. Opening Balance I. Expenses a.Cash and DD's in hand 6,871 6,625 a.Establishment Expenses - Regular b.Bank Balances Salaries & Allowances (admin & faculty) 104,111,284 82,794,976 In current accounts 35,588,728 54,406,747 Contribution to NPS 5,896,929 4,364,809 In deposit accounts 294,916,060 782,904,075 Contribution to CPF 87,424 167,658 In earmarked/retirement benefits 25,884,722 13,776,232 Medical Expense- Staff 2,285,099 1,699,123 accounts Employees Retirement Benefits 706,400 628,000 Interest on PF Contribution 124,338 0 II.Grants Received Staff Welfare Expense 0 3,659 a.From Government of India 750,000,000 648,300,000 Staff Training Expenses 19,970 113,311

III. Interest Received b.Establishment Expenses - Support Services a.On Bank Deposits 9,164,390 526,809 Consultancy & Manpower Charges 69,243,357 61,860,783 b. On Other Deposits 0 0 Remuneration to Contract Employees 25,729,326 20,358,672 c. Loans, Advances etc. 0 0

c. Academic & Other Student Expenses IV. Other Income Admission Expense 16,023,214 22,997,254 a.Entrance Fees 6,942,392 127,250 Assistanceship to Students 29,955,042 15,823,526 b.Annual Fees/Subscriptions 24,879,712 6,456,252 Library Services 25,096,599 17,092,893 c.Other Income 1,822,610 898,876 Academic Expense 29,411,298 24,565,205

Supplies & Materials 8,721,392 6,896,494 V. Any other receipts Student Activities Expense 1,377,736 933,306 a.Scholarship Received 0 12,000 b.Security Deposits received 1,561,099 1,789,650 d. Other Administrative Expenses c.Earnest Money Deposits received 1,313,766 1,269,120 Repairs & Maintenance 2,990,591 11,812,308 d.Performance Guarantee 2,089,537 1,203,364 Repairs & Maintenance - CMD 15,779,586 0 e.Advance for Research & Seminars 2,599,680 3,800,000 House Keeping Expense 916,684 1,341,817 f. Interest (CTCZ funds) 249,138 0 Audit Fees 183,146 95,505 g.Caution Deposit from Students 1,974,000 390,000 Legal Expense 117,219 230,636 h.Security Deposit (Asset) 7,898 0 Vehicle Operating Expense 19,792,961 25,722,383 i. Stale cheques 197,088 1,080 Electricity & Water Charges 18,189,265 16,020,726 j. Bond Amount - Payable to DOS 1,000,000 48,463 Travelling Expense 5,055,688 6,203,684 k.Canteen Accounting Committee 18,103,176 17,853,634 Research & Development Expense 2,830,826 2,288,375 i. Vaccine Recovery 1,245 4,980 Printing & Stationery 3,805,981 4,942,223 m.Interest received and payable to DOS 22,149,749 0 Advertisement & Publicity 1,210,316 2,304,005 n.Contingency advance 65,801 0 Hospitality Expense 4,651,721 4,576,414 o.Mediclaim recovery 241,200 0 Telephone & Internet Expense 2,994,886 3,013,923 p.Student Activities Account 1,286,100 0 Office Expense 2,646,136 2,220,020 Recruitment Expense 2,311,941 6,220,198 Security Expense - Others 13,711 66,825 Bank Charges 15,124 18,149 Compensation Paid 0 100,000

II. Payments made against funds for various projects Ministry of Earth & Space Science (CTCZ) 8,968 5,704,776 DST Inspire - Dr. Sakthivel 1,120,426 755,123 DST Inspire - Dr. Mahesh 1,632,638 586,693 KSCSTE - Prathibha 2013 338,694 0 NCM - 2014 363,595 0 TIFR - 2014 215,466 0

III. Expenditure on Fixed Assets & Capital Work-in-Progress a.Purchase of Fixed Assets 143,132,208 226,579,520 b.Expenditure on Capital Work-in-progress 257,587,043 380,124,787

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(Amount in Rs.)

Receipt 2013-14 2012-13 Payments 2013-14 2012-13

IV. Other Payments Research fund refunded 0 243,400 Scholarship paid to students 2,000 34,000 Security Deposits (Asset) paid 966,070 1,000 Security Deposits repaid to Contractors 1,221,549 391,356 Earnest Money Deposits repaid 1,197,611 1,141,097 Performance Guarantee 1,143,794 1,358,138 Decrease in TDS & VAT Payable 3,500 676,768 Contingency Advance to Staff 0 109,731 Advances - Branches 296,342 0 Loans to staff 51,196 745,279 Canteen Accounting Committee 20,946,869 17,961,494 Sundry debtors 160,046 52,773 Interest repayment to DOS 59,772,556 264,613,437 Stale Cheques - paid 5,000 0 Student Activities Account 1,269,020 0

V. Closing Balances a.Cash in hand 21,492 6,871 b.Bank Balances In current accounts (5,186,822) (35,588,728) In deposit accounts 213,046,043 294,916,060 In earmarked/retirement benefits account 29,257,012 25,884,722 Total 1,130,867,506 1,533,775,157 Total 1,130,867,506 1,533,775,157

Significant Accounting Policies 19 & Notes on Accounts

As per our report of even date attached.

For ARSB & Associates Chartered Accountants For and on behalf of FRN : 009803S Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST)

CA. P.Ananthakrishnan (Partner, Mem No. 201711)

Place : Thiruvananthapuram Dr. K. S. Dasgupta R. Hari Prasad Date : 8th October, 2014 Director Finance Officer

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A. Significant Accounting Policies

1. Basis of Accounting The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in India (Indian GAAP) and are prepared on accrual basis under the historical cost convention except those referred to in point no. 5b of accounting policies. The accounting policies adopted in the preparation of the financial statements are consistent with those followed in the previous year.

2. Use of estimates The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with Indian GAAP requires the Management to make estimates and assumptions considered in the reported amounts of assets and liabilities (including contingent liabilities) and the reported income and expenses during the year. The Management believes that the estimates used in preparation of the financial statements are prudent and reasonable. Future results could differ due to these estimates and the differences between the actual results and the estimates are recognized in the periods in which the results are known / materialize.

3. Inventories The inventories represents canteen inventories and is valued at lower of cost or net realizable value as certified by the Canteen Manager.

4. Depreciation a. Depreciation has been provided on the written down value method as per the rates prescribed in the Income Tax Act, 1961. b. Depreciation on assets acquired in a particular year is provided for the whole year irrespective of date of addition. c. Depreciation has not been charged on capital work in progress and on those assets under installation as on 31.03.2013.

5. Revenue Recognition a. Grant in aid received from the Department of Space, is accounted on accrual basis. Out of the total grant received, the amount provided in the budget towards revenue is treated as Revenue Grant / income over the period necessary to match them with the costs for which they are intended to compensate, on a systematic basis. The remaining grant forms part of the Corpus Fund along with other grant received. b. Tuition fees, fines and other recoveries from underperforming students (as per the policy of the institute) are accounted on cash basis. c. Interest income is accounted on accrual basis. Interest on deposits created out of grant received is not recognized as income and is shown as a liability payable to Department to Space.

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7. Foreign currency transactions Foreign currency monetary items outstanding at the Balance Sheet date are restated at the year- end rates. Non-monetary items are carried at historical cost. The exchange differences arising on restatement / settlement of long-term foreign currency monetary items are capitalised as part of the depreciable fixed assets to which the monetary item relates and depreciated over the remaining useful life of such assets.

8. Earmarked / Endowment Funds Earmarked / Endowment Funds mainly include external agency funding received for research & development purpose and conduct of seminars & workshops. Value of assets procured out of such funds for the purpose specified have gone to reduce the value of Fund in hand and have not been treated as an asset of the Institute as the ownership of the same vests with the funding agency. From 2013-14, Earmarked / Endowment Funds are held in a separate Current Account linked to Term Deposits. The interest received in the account during the year has been taken as the Institutes Income. Interest claims in the future, if any, from the disbursing parties of such Earmarked / Endowment Funds will be met at the time of the claim based on the deposit rates prevailing during the period of holding of the particular Fund.

9. Employee Benefits Employee benefits include General Provident Fund (GPF), Contributory Provident Fund (CPF), New Pension Scheme (NPS), and Group Insurance Scheme (GIS). The Institute's contribution to CPF and NPS are considered as defined contribution plans and are charged as an expense as they fall due based on the amount of contribution required to be made.

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GPF and CPF funds are maintained separately by the Institute in Savings Bank Account and Flexi deposits. Retirement Benefits consisting of pension fund, gratuity and leave encashment received from previous employers of employees joining from other Government organizations have been maintained separately in a Current Account and linked Term Deposits.

10. Taxes on income Being a non-profit institution existing solely for education purposes and being wholly financed by the Government of India, the income of the Institute is exempt under section 10[(23C)][iiiab] of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

11. Research and Development Expenses Revenue expenditure pertaining to research is charged to the Income and Expenditure Account. Fixed assets utilized for research and development are capitalized and depreciated in accordance with the policies stated for Fixed Assets.

12. Provisions and Contingencies A provision is recognised when the Institute has a present obligation as a result of past events and it is probable that an outflow of resources will be required to settle the obligation in respect of which a reliable estimate can be made. Provisions (excluding retirement benefits) are not discounted to their present value and are determined based on the best estimate required to settle the obligation at the Balance Sheet date. These are reviewed at each Balance Sheet date and adjusted to reflect the current best estimates.

13. Impairment of Assets The carrying values of assets / cash generating units at each Balance Sheet date are reviewed for impairment. If any indication of impairment exists, the recoverable amount of such assets is estimated and impairment is recognised, if the carrying amount of these assets exceeds their recoverable amount. The recoverable amount is the greater of the net selling price and their value in use. Value in use is arrived at by discounting the future cash flows to their present value based on an appropriate discount factor. When there is indication that an impairment loss recognised for an asset in earlier accounting periods no longer exists or may have decreased, such reversal of impairment loss is recognised in the Statement of Income and Expenditure, except in case of revalued assets.

B. Notes to the Accounts

1. Depreciation Assets are depreciated at written down value method as per rates prescribed in the Income Tax Act, 1961 as recommended by the Office of the Principal Director of Audit, Scientific Departments, Bangalore.

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2. Revenue a. Out of Grant of Rs. 75,00,00,000/- received during 2013-14, Rs. 26,00,00,000/- received specifically towards revenue expenditure has been transferred to Revenue Grant. b. Interest earned (actually received) on funds from grant-in-aid maintained in fixed deposits is refundable to DOS. Interest of Rs. 2,21,49,749/- (excluding the interest received on the Provident Fund Accounts and Earmarked Funds) has been actually received during 2013-14 and the same has been shown as refundable to DOS. c. Provision for interest accrued as on 31.03.2014 on deposits maintained with SBI, Valiamala has not been made due to lack of information from SBI, Valiamala. d. Canteen Accounting Committee accounts is maintained separately and the deficit is recognised in the Income and Expenditure Account. e. The Institute maintains a separate account exclusively for students' activities which was operated by the Dean (Students Activities) and the Registrar. This account did not form part of the Institutes accounts and amounts transferred to this account were treated as revenue expenditure of the Institute. From February 2014, the Student Activities Account has been made a part of the Institutes Account and the deficit is recognised in the Income and Expenditure Account.

3. Fixed Assets a. Land There is a stay by the Honorable High Court of Kerala on carrying out construction activities on a part of land (approximately 80 acres) purchased at Ponmudi in Trivandrum District for setting up the Institute. Over and above this 80 acres, approximately 20 acres of land at Ponmudi and 44.18928 acres at Valiamala has been transferred by the Government of Kerala free of cost in December 2007 and April 2009 respectively. These two properties have been brought into the books of accounts in 2013-14 by assigning a nominal value of Re. 1/- each. b. Capital Work-in-Progress includes a sum of Rs. 2,92,10,277/- towards project management and consultancy charges and service tax of Rs. 6,02,47,147/-, both pending for appropriation to fixed assets on final completion of all buildings. c. An amount of Rs. 37,07,727/- incurred towards partial construction of a helipad at Ponmudi during 2011-12 was accounted under Capital Work-in-Progress till 31.03.2013. As the project has not been completed and has subsequently been terminated, the amount incurred has been written off during 2013-14 and has been disclosed under Extraordinary Items in the Income and Expenditure Account. d. Academic Software worth Rs. 5,40,000/-, purchased in 2010-11, is no longer in use and the same has been written off during 2013-14. e. An amount of Rs. 1,82,75,874/- pertaining to assets that have been delivered to IIST before 31.03.2014 but under installation as on 31.03.2014 have been accounted as fixed assets & depreciation has not been charged on the same.

4. Employee Benefits a. Employer and Employee contribution to New Pension Scheme is being transferred to NSDL. Interest earned till date of transfer has also been deposited to the respective employee NPS

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b. The Institute has entered into a Group Insurance Scheme (GIS) agreement with Life Insurance Corporation of India from 2011-12 onwards. c. Provision for interest on PF Contribution at the rates prescribed have been made. Interest earned on GPF and CPF funds parked in Savings Accounts (linked to flexi deposits) have been accounted as income. An amount of Rs. 15,178/- being interest received over and above the interest liability on GPF accounts and Rs. 2,330/- towards interest liability on CPF accounts is being retained in the respective PF accounts. An additional amount of Rs. 1,07,486/- received as interest in the CPF Bank Account pertains to the CPF balance of Dr. N. Padmanabhan transferred to SAC, Ahmedabad in 2013-14. The transfer was effected from the funds held in IIST's routine Curent Account linked to CLTD's. Thus, the amount of Rs. 1,07,486/- forms part of the Interest Income refundable to DOS and has been accounted as such. Rs.1,07,486/- is to be transferred from the CPF Bank Account to IIST's routine Current Account and the same is being done in 2014-15. d. Provision for liability in respect of gratuity, pension and leave encashment has not been made. Permission from DOS for creation & maintenance of a separate pension fund has been received during 2013-14. An amount of Rs. 590.61 lakhs has been estimated by Life Insurance Corporation as the liability on 31.03.2014 towards the gratuity, pension and leave encashment of the 21 members of the General Provident Fund. The actuarial valuation amount of LIC will be brought into the books of accounts on obtaining necessary approval for the same from the Board of Management. In addition, the retirement benefits from the previous employers for the members governed under the GPF has not been received in all cases

5. Interest on Earmarked / Endowment Funds During 2013-14, the Ministry of Earth and Space Sciences (MOES) has claimed interest for the period that the Fund allocated by the Ministry for the CTCZ project was held at IIST. An amount of Rs. 2,49,138/- has been allocated as interest based on deposit rates for the respective years. As interest income in the years prior to 2013-14 was transferred to DOS, the amount of Rs. 2,49,138/- allocated to MOES has gone to reduce the interest income refundable to DOS for 2013-14. 6. Prior Period Item Details of prior period items are as given below :-

Details Prior period income EJournals 1,91,399.00 Seminar expenses 25,654.00 Group Insurance Scheme 360.00 Repairs & Maintenance (CMD) 5,59,586.00 Office Expense 1,535.00 Supplies & Materials 2,102.00 Total (A) 7,80,636.00

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Details Prior period income Advertising charge (DST) 9,354.00 Electricity Charges (SD) 11,000.00 Seminar Expense 26,130.00 Salaries & Allowances 1,78,658.00 Total (B) 2,25,142.00

Net prior period item (A-B) = Rs. 5,55,494.00

7. Academic Expenses Academic Expenses mainly include expenses towards Lectures for students, Project & Internship expenses, stipend paid to Ph.D students and expenses incurred on Seminars, Symposiums and Conferences.

8. Admission Expenses Admission expenses include expenses incurred towards B.Tech, M.Tech and PhD admissions. The same have been accounted on accrual basis and date of conduct of exam has not been considered for accounting of the same as has been adopted for accounting of admission revenue.

9. Assistanceship to Students As per the approval of The Chairman, Board of Management-IIST / Secretary, DOS vide Letter No. PP & PM : IIST : 09-10 dated July 17th, 2009, the B. Tech students of the Institute are entitled for an assistanceship of Rs. 49,000/- for each semester towards Statutory Semester Fee, Student Amenity Fee, Hostel & Dining, Establishment charges and Medical cover. Though this amount is not directly disbursed to the students, expenditure is incurred on their behalf under these heads by the Institute. From the academic year 2013-14, the assistanceship amount of Rs. 46,000/- (exclusive of book grant) for one semester has been disbursed to eligible students based on the performance of the previous semester. The assistanceship amount disbursed has been remitted back by the students to the Institute and expenditure corresponding to the assistanceship so received (under Hostel, Dining & Medical cover) has been set off against the assistanceship amount.

10. Supplies and Materials Supplies and Materials mostly consist of lab consumables.

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11. Bank balances The negative balance in the SBI and UBI Current Accounts represents the cheques issued on the closing date of the financial year which are not presented for payment. The Institute has sufficient balance to cover these cheques issued in the linked deposit accounts maintained with SBI and the flexi deposits maintained with UBI. Hence, the negative balance does not represent any Overdraft.

12. Format of accounts The accounts of the Institute are prepared as per proforma suggested by the Office of the Principal Director of Audit, Scientific Departments, Bangalore.

13. Insurance The Institute being an autonomous body under the Department of Space (DOS), it is governed by the rules and regulations as applicable to DOS. As per the “Book of Financial Powers” prescribed by DOS “No Government property whether movable or immovable shall be insured. No liability shall be incurred in connection with the insurance of such property without the prior approval of the Department of Space in consultation with the Member for Finance.” The matter was taken up for consultation with the Department of Space during 2012-13 and it was decided in the Seventh Finance Committee meeting of IIST dated 3rd June, 2013 not to insure the assets of the institute.

14. Balances in personal accounts Balances in personal accounts are subject to confirmation from respective parties.

15. Contingent Liabilities a. The unexecuted portion of the contracts entered into by the Institute will form part of the current liability of the Institute. However, the same could not be quantified. b. Interest earned on Earmarked / Endowment Funds held in a separate Current Account linked to Term Deposits has been taken as the Institutes Income. Interest claims in the future, if any, from the disbursing parties of such Earmarked / Endowment Funds will be met at the time of the claim based on the deposit rates prevailing during the period of holding of the particular Fund. c. In the case of buildings / structures completed by SPCL, only 90% has been billed by SPCL and subsequently paid by IIST. The balance 10% (approximately Rs. 8.18 crores) has not been billed and the same will be paid only on completion of the project. In case of all other works completed by SPCL and not billed as on 31.03.2014, provision has not been made in the books of accounts since the same is not quantifiable.

16. Building Construction The institute entered into a contract with SPCL, Mumbai on 27.08.2008 for Rs. 278.60 crores with a completion period of 18 months for setting up building and infrastructure at its campus in Valiamala on turnkey basis. As per the note provided by the CMD office the project was delayed due to various unforeseen reasons and the extension of the contract was given up to 04.11.2014 without prejudice to the right of the institute to impose the levy of compensation for the delay. As per clause 2 of the agreement the institute can levy penalty on the works which will have an impact on the accounts. The same could not be quantified due to want of details. As on 31.03.2014, advance 98Annual Report 2013-14 Annual Report 2013-142 amount paid to SPCL towards mobilisation and interim advance amounts to Rs. 8.93 crores. The Institute currently holds the following instruments as security with respect to the contract with SPCL.

Nature of security Amount (in crores) Security Deposit Bank guarantee 13.93 Performance Bank guarantee 13.93 Bank guarantee against Interim Advance 5.43 Bank guarantee against Mobilisation Advance 4.00

18. Figures for the previous year Figures for the previous year have been regrouped and/or reclassified wherever considered necessary.

As per our report of even date attached.

For ARSB & Associates For and on behalf of Chartered Accountants Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) FRN : 009803S

CA. P.Ananthakrishnan Dr. K. S. Dasgupta R. Hari Prasad (Partner, Mem No. 201711) Director Finance Officer

Place : Thiruvananthapuram Date : 8th October, 2014

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